Barcelona v Inter Milan UCL Semi-Final picks and predictions

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08-05-2025

Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros give us their picks and predictions for the 2nd semi-final matchup between Barcelona and Inter Milan. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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Barca enter this, uh, especially now with the, you know, with the, the recency bias of, of, uh, Barcelona winning Copa de Rey, uh, you would imagine, uh, that they would get some of their players back.
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high right now.
Is are fantastic, and this is where something into has to be a little bit, uh, keep this in mind, but this.
I, I, look, Barta is gonna win, uh, in my opinion, my only, the only thing I'm really thinking about is how much they're gonna win by.
I think they're gonna, they might, uh, overpower, they might, uh, they might just they might embarrass him a little bit, I think with.
With the way that they're playing right now, uh, so, again, this is from still, I'm still watching Le Minamal dance and, uh, uh, you know, in the after the Copa de Rey final.
I'm still watching him.
Did you see he dapped up the king?
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So if you could, if you're dopping up the king, king, so inter better give him royalty, you know what I mean, adapt that's crazy, uh, I think Intern win.
I think, uh, Inzagi has proven time and time again that he has the ability to figure teams like this out.
I think what Barca does is absolutely incredible, and they do it better than anyone, but I think it's one thing.
And I know there's players on each wing that can really hurt you, really bad, but it's one thing they do.
And if you can take that away from them, and I know no one has, but if there's anyone that I have confidence I can figure it out, it's Anxagi.
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If you can simply take out the ability for them to, one, have a high line against you and use the counterattack, if you can take that away from them, even for most of the game, not all of the game, but even for large parts of the game, I think you can really sort of Pour water on this fire a little bit.
And I think, I think La Liga teams have shown it in the past, and I think Inzagi could figure it out over two what prove what will prove to be two very difficult teams.
I'm two very difficult games, I should say.
I think Inzagi, his team defensively is so stout.
The only question I have, and I still say they're gonna win, is can Lautaro Martinez prove in the crunch time that he could be that guy.
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Oh, OK. That's, I, I don't have that.
I don't really have any huge doubts about Lata though.
I do think you ain't stopping Pedri.
You ain't stopping me.
I don't think it's gonna be easy, but I think Gonzagi can figure it out.
They, they, they look fantastic these last, uh, uh, couple weeks.
Remember this guy's tactics are insane.
You got center backs passing to each other in the opposition's box.
It's crazy.
It's gonna be a fun.
Let us know in the comments, Barca fans.
Let us know what you think about Alexis's predictions in the back me up, even they're like, yo, you crazy, bro.
So, uh, yeah, very, uh, yeah, I think, you know, in my opinion, they're walking into a bit of a buzz saw with that that Barcelona, they look fantastic.
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