The Italian side played out a pulsating 3-3 draw with Barca in Wednesday's (30.04.25) semi-final first leg but the coach admits that he has some "regrets" after his team surrendered a two-goal lead and had a goal from Henrikh Mkhitaryan ruled out for a narrow offside call.

Inzaghi told Amazon Prime Video Italia: "We played a great game, clearly were 2-0 up, I still don’t understand why that goal was disallowed, so there are also regrets, but we know that we put in a great performance against in my view right now the best team in the world.

"Unfortunately, these incidents can make the difference. It changes nothing in the way I feel about these lads and their performance, as they were fantastic tonight."

Inter struggled to contain Barca's teenage wonderkid Lamine Yamal in the first half and Inzaghi was pleased that the tactical approach to limit his influence was more effective in the second period.

The manager said: "We tried to fix a few things, as Lamine Yamal is a player whose quality I haven’t seen for at least 8-9 years.

"He caused us huge problems, as we had to double up the marking every time, it wasn’t enough, so by tripling up we’d leave gaps elsewhere and were forced to sit deeper. Fortunately, he too lost some intensity over time, as Barcelona too have played many games this season. It was a very good second half performance."

The semi-final tie will now be decided in the second leg next Tuesday (06.05.25) and Inzaghi knows what is at stake for his side.

He said: "When we came to Barcelona three years ago, that was a draw too.

"I want to thank our fans, their embrace at the final whistle against a painful defeat to Roma really helped. Now it’s going to be a final on Tuesday, whoever wins will play another final, whoever loses will go home."