Tuesday evening at San Siro will give us an answer regarding the first finalist of the Champions League. Inter Milan and FC Barcelona in the first match went to exchange blows, ending with a drawing of nothing. Hence, in Milan, we can expect a fight to the bankrupt, supervised by Szymon Marciniak, who will lead this meeting.
Poles in the Champions League final? Two minimum, but we will gladly accept one more
We have also learned the compositions of both teams for this match. In total, four Poles play in Inter and Barcelona, although only one of them, Wojciech Szczęsny, will start the meeting from the first minute. Robert Lewandowski freshly sat on the bench after an injury, and now Piotr Zieliński and Nicola Zalewski in Inter are simply most often substitutes. However, this does not change the fact that no matter what happens, we will have at least two compatriots in the final, and there can be three if Arsenal of Jakub Kiwior also enters the finals.
Lewandowski can go down in history. Zalewski too
If FC Barcelona promotes to the final, Robert Lewandowski will become the third player in history who will play directly for the title of LM with three different clubs. However, not only he can do something historical. As the portal noted, the author of an extremely rare feat has a chance to become Nicola Zalewski. Namely, the shuttle of Inter can only play in the finals of all three European cups as the second footballer in history.
Conference League youth. Few played in her finale, but Zalewski yes
The conference league has existed since the 2021/2022 season, so there are not many players who had the opportunity to play in the finals of this competition. And it is about actual entering the field, not just being in the match squad. Because if such cases also count, the final “Hattrick” could be boasted of even Chris Smalling (he played in the final of LE 2023 and LK 2022, both in the colors of Roma, but in the final of the Champions League from 2011 he sat the whole match on the Manchester United bench).
Zalewski played in the same two finals as Smalling, as they divided the AS Roma cloakroom. The Pole recorded 67 minutes in winning 1: 0 final of the European Conference League with Feyenoord Rotterdam, and also entered the extra time of the Europa League final a year later, lost by the Romans after penalty with Sevilla. If Inter defects Barcelona in the semi -final of the Champions League, and Zalewski then ran out to the field in the final, he will sign up in history as the second finalist of all three cups.
Will the Pole beaten five with a teammate?
Who is the first? Well, Zalewski does not have to look for a long time. It is enough for him to lift his head in the cloakroom and look around. “Pioneer” in this field is his teammate Henrich Mkhitaryan. In 2017, Armenian won the Europa League with Manchester United and even scored a goal in the final with Ajax Amsterdam (2: 0). He also won the League of Conference with Roma in the aforementioned 2022. A year later, he lost the Champions League final with Manchester City (0: 1) in the colors of Inter. Each time he was on the pitch, so “Hattrick” hunted.