Inter Milan booked their place in the last 16 of the Champions League by sweeping aside Viktoria Plzen in a victory that confirmed Barcelona's elimination at the group stage.
Match Report
A double from Edin Dzeko, Henrikh Mkhitaryan's first-half header and a late Romelu Lukaku strike sealed the home side's progression into the knockout rounds as Xavi's Barcelona team watched on from afar before playing Bayern Munich later on Wednesday.
The result sends Barca crashing out of Europe's premier club competition at the first hurdle for the second consecutive season.
Xavi and his men would not have been expecting Plzen to get a result - they have now lost all five of their group games - but their feint hopes were dashed when Mkhitaryan scored 10 minutes before half time.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
19' OFFSIDE! Shot from Lautaro!
24' Dimarco's shot stopped by goalkeeper!
25' Mkhitaryan's header stopped by goalkeeper!
32' CLOSE! Dzekoโs shot wide out
34' GOAL! Inter 1-0 Viktoria Plzen (Mkhitaryan)
41' GOAL! Inter 2-0 Viktoria Plzen (Dzeko)
48' Yellow Card! Ludek Pernica booked
65' GOAL! Inter 3-0 Viktoria Plzen (Dzeko)
86' GOAL! Inter 4-0 Viktoria Plzen (Lukaku)
Line-ups
Inter XI: Dzeko, Mkhitaryan, Acerbi, Calhanoglu, Skriniar, Dimarco, Barella, Dumfries, Onana, Lautaro, Bastoni
Subs: Darmian, Handanovic, Alex Cordaz, Lukaku, De Vrij, D'Ambrosio, Correa, Gagliardini, Gosens, Bellanova, Kristjan Asllani
Viktoria Plzen XI: Lukas Hejda, Ludek Pernica, Jhon Mosquera, Jindrich Stanek, Milan Havel, Adam Vlkanova, Lukas Kalvach, Erik Jirka, Pavel Bucha, Mohamed Tijani, Fortune Bassey
Subs: Vaclav Pilar, Ales Cermak, Tomas Chory, Marian Tvrdon, Libor Holik, Vaclav Jemelka, Martin Jedlicka, Modou N'Diaye
joeejyk
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So Barcelona have successfully hijack all the Chelsea deal including Europa League [Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
JoyNg
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Xavi: we don't deserve to play Europa league take us to the confrence league๐๐๐
JoyNg
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Finally the day has come!!!๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ HAPPY MARRIED LIFEโ๐๐๐
Buschester-United
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Barcelona in one picture ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ๐
Buschester-United
94
Barcelona should just cancel the Bayern match to avoid more embarrassment
Nino_Luxury
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Writing off Barca when it's not yet over is unprofessional of this app. A win tonight can bring back the chance of them qualifying.
childhood
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GIF link Here: http://www.goalgif.xyz/v2/live/matchGifs?match_id=53467416&language=en
Lewiskamau
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Barcelona fans this season: Europe will respect Barcelona. Under Xavi, Gavi is growing well. Raphinha will cook at Barca. Ousmanne Dembele is back. Pedri is better than KDB. Ansu Fati is back to his best. Now read the first letter of each line
Nino_Luxury
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Writing off Barca when it's not yet over is unprofessional of this app. A win tonight can bring back the chance of them qualifying.
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Ok, this does it, they are out[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
themainman
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How about if Bayern beat INTER with a good goal Margin? And Barca won Viktoria Plzen with a good margin as well?
even of bayern beat inter 100 - 0, Inter will still qualify. Inter beat Barca once and drew with barca once; meaning they have a better win ratio againt barca in this group stage. Barca has 4 points so even if they beat bayern and Viktoria Pleizn, it will take them to 10 points; BUT Inter already have those 10 points. Now if Inter ends with 10 points and barca ends with 10 points, since the points are level, they will first of all look at the head to head difference (win ratio), in which case Inter beat barca and barca did not beat inter; hence no matter how u look at it, Barca is out of the UCL and down to the europa league [Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]