Raphinha unhappy with Barca’s defending after Inter thriller

Raphinha claimed that Barcelona had the defense of Barcelona much to be desired after their topsy-turf 3-3 draw with Inter.

Barca and Inter played a thriller on Wednesday in the first stage of their Champions League semi-final draw.

It marks the Joint Highste Score in a semi-final match of the Champions League, in addition to a 3-3 draw between Dynamo Kyiv and Bayern Munich in the first stage in 1998-99.

In what their 300th Champions League match was, Barca could not win at home, despite the score of at least three goals for only a third time in the competition.

And Raphinha, who helped Ferran Torres to make it 2-2 in the first half before he then played a crucial role in Barca's second equalizer, his strike that deposited from the bar and bounced in Off Yann Sommer-razed the sloppy defense of Blaugrana to have only seven shots.

“If you play at home like us, the feeling that we must have succeeded in earning a better result,” Raphinha told Movistar Plus.

“We cannot admit that many goals, especially at home. Of course, you have to do our opponents who are strong and well played tonight, but we are Barca and it is our duty to win at home, that's how it is.

“But the result is not that bad and it all lets it open for the return bone in Milan, so we will try to correct the mistakes, so that we can go there and win the victory that brings us to the final.”

Raphinha's assist brought him to eight for the campaign in the competition, only one shy by Luis Figo's single season Champions League record of nine.

The Brazilian attacker is a total of 20 target contributions in the Champions League this period, in which only Cristiano Ronaldo (21 in 2013-14) was directly involved in more goals in the competition in a season.

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