{"id":65394,"date":"2025-05-07T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65394"},"modified":"2025-05-07T09:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T09:44:05","slug":"inter-edge-barca-in-seven-goal-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/07\/inter-edge-barca-in-seven-goal-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Edge Barca in Seven-Goal Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan have booked their place in the UEFA Champions League final after a dramatic 4-3 triumph over Barcelona in a pulsating encounter on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian side advanced 7-6 on aggregate after a rollercoaster clash that saw both teams trade blows until the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Lautaro Martinez and Hakan Calhanoglu fired Inter into a commanding first-half lead, but Barcelona roared back after the break.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Garcia and Dani Olmo struck in quick succession to draw level and swing momentum their way.<\/p>\n<p>When Raphinha tapped in what seemed to be the decisive goal in the 87th minute, the tie appeared sealed.<\/p>\n<p>But Inter refused to back down.<\/p>\n<p>Francesco Acerbi delivered a thunderbolt deep into stoppage time to revive the Nerazzurri\u2019s hopes, before substitute Davide Frattesi buried the winner in extra time to complete a memorable night.<\/p>\n<p>Inter will face the winner of the second semi-final between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in what promises to be a blockbuster final later this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Inter Milan have booked their place in the UEFA Champions League final after a dramatic 4-3 triumph over Barcelona in a pulsating encounter on Tuesday night. The Italian side advanced 7-6 on aggregate after a rollercoaster clash that saw both teams trade blows until the final whistle. Lautaro Martinez and Hakan Calhanoglu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65396,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65394\/revisions\/65396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}