Inter qualifies for the final 16 of the Champions League if…: the mixtures

The crucial is to win. Solely a win over Viktoria Plzen would see Inter safe qualification for the final 16 of the Champions League – on this case, certainly, even an unlikely purpose in opposition to Bayern Munich Munich couldn’t be helpful for Barcelona. Simone Inzaghi’s staff’s three-point benefit within the standings would, in reality, be sufficient to seize the move: within the occasion of equal factors, head-to-head matches reward the Nerazzurri.

The joints

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Though Lautaro Martínez and his teammates are making ready to host the Czechs with solely victory in thoughts, an unfortunate slip wouldn’t robotically imply that qualification one spherical earlier than the knockout stage could be gone. In reality, there are mixtures, with an eye fixed on Barcelona-Bayern Munich, that might nonetheless permit the passage of the spherical as early as tomorrow night. To simplify: if Inter collects the identical factors because the Blaugrana on this fifth spherical, it goes to the following section. That is exactly as a result of the space within the standings would stay at the very least the three factors wanted. This occurs, then, if Inter and Barcelona lose or if the Nerazzurri draw and the Catalans don’t win.

To postpone

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Then again, the situation could be completely different if Inzaghi’s males didn’t get the victory and the success of Barcelona in opposition to the chief Bayern Munich. In reality, one would consider the final spherical subsequent Tuesday, with rather more complicated articulations: Nerazzurri in Bavaria and Blaugrana within the Czech Republic with the potential for advancing. On this situation, nonetheless, the completely different schedule of matches for today weighs: Inter play early on Wednesday at 6.45 p.m., so a visit would multiply the vitality within the legs of Xavi Hernández’s boys, conscious of the already matured consequence to Giuseppe Meazza. It is too dangerous.