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Lionel Messi Barcelona2 Can Messi and Co Turn it Around for Barcelona? Bayern Munich will await the winner of Wednesday night’s semi-final second-leg between Barcelona (1.42) and Inter Milan (6.50), and whoever makes it through will be salivating at the thought of being the champions-elect in this season’s Champions League.

Many people will consider this match to almost be the final itself such is the likelihood that the side who wins will go on to lift the trophy.
However, we all know not to count our chickens, and neither Pep Guardiola nor the ‘Special One’ will be looking too far into the future ahead of the match of the season so far.

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Both sides rang the changes at the weekend, and both managed to record 3-1 victories as in their respective bids for the league championship. Jose Mourinho made six changes to the team that beat Barcelona, with only captain Javier Zanetti, keeper Julio Cesar, Diego Milito, Welsey Sneijder, and Samuel Eto’o retaining their places.

The victory at the weekend came at a heavy price for Inter, as their star player Welsey Sneijder was forced off with a hamstring injury. The playmaker will probably be given until the last moment to prove his fitness on Wednesday, but it looks likely that the Dutchman will be missing.
However Mourinho, has one of the most talented squads around at his disposal and should be able to cope.

Barcelona will be looking to Messi to produce another magic show like he did against Arsenal a few weeks back. The difference is Inter Milan can defend and Arsenal these days can’t.

This could set up a classic Italian versus Spanish match-up in which Inter may try to absorb pressure from the Catalans and fight their opponents on the counter-attack.