Marseille is close to the Champions League final, and Barcelona retains little hope after drawing with Inter

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Olympique Marseille boosted its chance of reaching the last 16 of the European Champions League with a 2-0 victory over nine players from its Portuguese host, Sporting Lisbon, on Wednesday, while Barcelona retained little hope of reaching the last 16 with an exciting draw with its Italian guest, Inter, 3-3. .

achieve team Olympique Marseille The victory over Sporting with two goals to nothing, in an exciting match in which players were expelled from the Portuguese team.

Mathieu El Guendouzi and Alexis Sanchez scored before the break Sporting، who played with ten men against the Portuguese team at the Velodrome stadium last week when they lost 4-1.

Sporting lost today Ricardo Esgaio and Pedro Gonselves after being sent off with one player in each half.

Olympique Marseille rose to second place in Group B with six points, one point behind Tottenham Hotspur, who beat Eintracht Frankfurt 3-2.

Sporting is in third place with six points, two points behind Eintracht.

Marseille took the lead in the 20th minute when El-Gendouzi scored a penalty after Esgayo, who was given a second warning in this incident, collided with Amin Harith.

Ten minutes later, Harith sent a cross that was met by Sanchez and turned into the goal from close range to double the score.

The match was almost over when Gonselves received two yellow cards within two minutes and was sent off in the 60th minute.

Barcelona and weak hope

Meanwhile, keep Barcelona The Spaniard has little hope of reaching the final price, with his exciting draw with his Italian guest, Inter, 3-3 on Wednesday at the “Spotify Camp Nou” in the fourth round of the third group competitions.

Inter raised his score to 7 points, compared to only 4 for Barcelona, ​​and the first needs to win in its last two matches against Czech Viktoria Plzen at home and Bayern Munich outside its stadium to guarantee qualification even if Barcelona wins its two matches, because it outperforms it in the two direct matches after its 1-0 victory in The third round last Tuesday.

The absence of Inter Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku continued, as the veteran Bosnian duo Edin Dzeko and Argentine Lautaro Martinis played in the front line.

Barcelona started the match as a striker because there was no alternative to winning to turn things in his favour, and the Armenian playmaker Henrikh Mkhitaryan saved his goal from a sure goal when the Polish Robert Lewandowski header was deflected from the goal line (7).

Inter and almost opened the scoring when Dzeko took advantage of a direct free kick and hit the ball towards the goal, but the crossbar saved the situation and rebounded towards the Dutchman Danzel Damfris, who did not improve the shot (16).

Barcelona succeeded in opening the scoring when Sergi Roberto passed a cross into the area followed by French international Osman Dembele from a short distance into the net (40).

At the beginning of the second half, Nicolo Barilla slipped from behind the Barcelona defense, taking advantage of a forward pass by Alessandro Bastoni, who hit the ceiling of the net, equalizing (50).

Ter Stegen saved his goal from a sure goal by Slovakian Milan Shkriniar (55).

Inter took advantage of a quick counter-attack, in which the ball reached Martinis from the Turkish international, Hakan Calhanoglu, so he put it on his chest brilliantly and got rid of Eric Garcia’s control before he hit it with a powerful creeping shot that hit the two posts and wobbled into the net (63).

And Lewandowski managed to equalize when the ball rebounded inside the area from one of the Inter defenders, and he returned it into the net (82).

The Catalan team threw all its weight to get the three points of the match, but Inter surprised it with a quick counter-attack that German Robin Gousens ended in the net (89).

Barcelona refused to come out with a loss and kept its weak hope when Lewandowski rose wonderfully to the ball with his head and put it in the net (90 + 2).

FRANCE 24/AFP

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