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Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain begin to face the semi-finals of the Football League on Tuesday, a day before FC Barcelona and Inter Milan tore the discussion for the other place in Munich's decision.
Two weeks after they eliminated the European and Spanish champion Real Madrid, a triumph record holder in the main European Club race (15), with a double victory in the 'rooms' (3-0 and 2-1), the English Arsenal will receive the newly four-time French champion Paris Saint-Germain.
Premier League's vice -leader – who can be won today by Liverpool – has the most realistic hypothesis of celebrating a trophy at this time and is unbeaten in five games with the Parisians, the last of which in the second round of the alloy phase, when they won in London (2-0), with goals from German Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka.
If Arsenal, a finalist defeated in 2005/06 against FC Barcelona, had no longer reached the 'socks' 16 years ago, PSG has five presence in this round, which it did not pass in 1994/95, 2020/21 and 2023/24, having faltered in 2019/20 with Bayern Munich.
The team of Portuguese internationals Nuno Mendes, João Neves, Vitinha and Gonçalo Ramos tries to ward off the third consecutive English club of the race, after supplating Liverpool on the tiebreaker for great penalties of the eighth, as well as Aston Villa, with a 3-1 triumph in France and a 3-2 loss in Birmingham, in the 'rooms'.
Winner for the 13th time, and a consecutive fourth, of the Gaul Championship, in which he lost unbeaten record in the reception of Friday to Nice (1-3), PSG shares with Arsenal the desire of unpublished Gloria in 'Champions', the largest design of the Qatar Sports Investments, which acquired the club in 2011, under the support of that country.
Since all yellow cards have expired following the 'rooms', a phase without expulsions, no team will be absence for disciplinary reasons, although Gabriel Magalhães, Riccardo Calafiori, Jorginho, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus deprive the arsenal by injury.
The first -hand of the 'socks' program also includes receiving the Spaniards of FC Barcelona to Italian champion Inter Milan, in a meeting between the most effective attack and the less beaten defense, with 37 goals scored and five conceded in the same matches.
Holders of five successes (1991/92, 2005/06, 2008/09, 2010/11 and 2014/15), the Catalans lead the Spanish League to five days of the end and beat the King's Cup on Saturday against Real Madrid (3-2 after extension), which had already defeated in the Super Cup.
FC Barcelona is returning to the semifinalists of the six-year-old Champions League semifinalists and 16 presences later, on a way where they pushed Benfica away from the eighths and the continental runner-up Borussia Dortmund in the 'rooms' (4-0 at home and 1-3 in Germany).
This defeat in the Welsh was the only one suffered in 2025 by the 'blaugrana', which lost days for injury to the polaco tip of Polish Robert Lewandowski, the team's best scorer in 2024/25, with 40 goals in the various competitions, but recovered German goalkeeper Marc-André having Stegen, holder to the knee contracted seven months ago.
FC Barcelona takes advantage of the historic face to Inter, but the 'Nerazzurri' were imposed on the most relevant round in 2009/10, when, under the guidance of Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, they triumphed with an aggregate of 3-2 in the 'socks' and headed to the final, in which they would defeat Bayern Munich, reissue the successes of 1963/64 and 1964/65.
By overtaking the Bavarians in the previous phase (2-1 in Germany and 2-2 in Italy), the leader of Serie A, on punctual equality with Naples, reached semifinalist status for the 10th time, and first since he lost Manchester City in the 2022/23 decision.
Inter Milan has been unbeaten for 15 homemade duels in the Champions League – the sequence of Arsenal Dura for 11 – but recently was without chances of reaching the triplet, given the removal of the Italian Cup final by Sérgio Conceição rival Citadino AC Milan.
Traditional partner of Argentine Captain Lautaro Martínez in the attack, Frenchman Marcus Thuram is in doubt for the clash in Catalonia, as well as Denzel Dumfries, head in the right corridor, and Polish Piotr Zieliński, an alternative in midfield.
The challenges of the semi-finals start at 20:00 (time in Lisbon) and have the second hand scheduled for May 6 and 7, while the decision of the 70th edition of the main European club test will take place on the 31st of next month at Allianz Arena in Munich.
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