Inter vs Barcelona

This was the joint highest score draw in a UEFA Champions League semi-final game alongside a 3-3 draw between Dynamo Kyiv and FC Bayern München in the first leg back in 1998-99.

In what was their 300th UEFA Champions League game (all time), Barcelona failed to win at home despite scoring 3+ goals for just a third time in the competition, also doing so against Manchester United in November 1998 and Internazionale in October 2022 (all three finishing 3-3).

This was just the third time Internazionale have failed to win a UEFA Champions League game having led by 2+ goals after a 3-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund in November 2019 and a 3-3 draw with Benfica in April 2023.

Barcelona and Internazionale have faced each other on 16 previous occasions in Europe, with the Spanish side winning exactly half of those (W8 D5 L3). They are winless in the most recent two, however, which came in the group stages of the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League (0-1 away, 3-3 at home).

This will be just the second time Barcelona and Internazionale have met in the knockout stages of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, with both coming precisely at the semi-final stage. The previous one – played in 2009-10 – saw José Mourinho’s Inter eliminate the reigning champions 3-2 on aggregate (3-1 at the Giuseppe Meazza, 0-1 at the Camp Nou).

Barcelona are unbeaten in their six home games against Internazionale in the UEFA Champions League (W5 D1). Those five home wins against them are their joint-most against an opponent in UEFA Champions League/European Cup (also five v AC Milan), while the only team they’ve hosted more often in the competition without losing is Chelsea (7).

Barcelona haven’t lost any of their six home matches in the UEFA Champions League this season (W5 D1), while scoring 21 goals in the process. Only in the 1999/2000 edition have they ever netted more at home in a single European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign (29 in eight games).

Barcelona are averaging 3.1 goals per game under Hansi Flick in the UEFA Champions League; the second-most by a manager-club duo with 10+ games, after Hansi Flick’s Bayern Munich (3.2). Meanwhile, Internazionale could equal the record for most clean sheets by an Italian team in a Champions League campaign (currently on eight), held by AC Milan in 2004-05 and Juventus in 2016-17 (both 9).