A dance for two: Romelu Lukaku (left) and Lautaro Martinez
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Thanks to Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martínez, Inter Milan are in the final of the Europa League. Both show how modern striker play works. Larger names are not required at all.
WITHAt least as a distant thought, as a “fantasy”, as coach Antonio Conte recently said, Lionel Messi is also present when Inter Milan plays football somewhere. The world star from Argentina is still under contract with FC Barcelona, but at the end of July a TV station from the empire of the Chinese Suning Commerce Group, which also includes Inter, published a confusing photo montage.
The picture shows Messi as an iconic projection on the Milan Cathedral. As a hint of a move to Lombardy? In any case, there has been a lot of speculation since then, also because the glow of the brilliant Argentine loses its power in Barcelona. Messi’s spirit played along when the present-day Milanese team beat Shakhtar Donetsk 5-0 in an impressive Europa League semi-final on Monday evening. Led by two brilliant strikers whose appearance raised the question of whether this team could use the aging Messi at all.
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