Eric Garcia says that Barcelona “must be proud” on what they have achieved this season, despite their semi-final loss of Champions League for Inter.
Barcelona was beaten 4-3 in San Siro in the second stage, lost 7-6, but came to half time on Tuesday from 2-0.
Lautaro Martinez and Hakan Calhanoglu had given the lead, but Garcia and Dani Olmo dragged Barca level by the hour before Raphinha thought he had brought them to the final with a goal of 87 minutes.
Lamine Yamal, however, hit the pole before Francesco Acerbi scored a stop-time equalizer. Davide Frattesi then yielded an extra-time winner to deny Hansi Flick's side a place in the showpiece.
Barcelona scored 43 goals in this season's Champions League, with only the Blaugrana itself (45 in 1999-2000) more in one campaign in the history of the competition. However, they also gave 24 goals in the competition this period, their highest total ever in a season ever.
This marks the eighth time that Barca has been eliminated in the semi-final phase (since 1992-93), the joint the majority of each team (level with Real Madrid), which does not progress at four of the last five times that they have appeared in the last four.
The defeat to interpret their hope for a treble, although they are still on schedule to collect three domestic trophies, while they are sitting top of Laliga, after they also won the supercopa de Espana and the Copa del Rey.
“I think that in the first half went down 2-0. The reaction we had in the second half was great,” Garcia told Amazon Prime.
“We had even more chances to close the game. It has been made of decisions, but that is football, and we must be really proud of what we have done.
'We have to get started [for the rest of the season]We must be proud.
“Our fans this season, we had – nobody believed in us in the beginning [of the season]. Many changes and changing the manager, really young players, and we must be proud. “
Barcelona gave a penalty away just before half-time when Pau Cubarsi tackled Martinez, with the Spot-Kick given after a VAR review when the interk captain first reached the ball.
Flick's side had also destroyed their own punishment in the second half, with VAR who considered Henrikh Mkhitaryan's contact on Yamal, began outside the frameworks.
The young person came very close to winning the Barca competition several times, with Yann Sommer, as he did in the first stage, making a number of spectacular rescues to ensure that Inter reached their second final in three years.
In general, despite the fact that it was frustrated by the result and some decisions during the game, Flick was delighted about the fight that Barcelona demonstrated.
“I am very disappointed that we are gone – but I am not disappointed about the performance of my team. They tried everything,” he said.
“We are gone, but next year we will start again and we will make our fans, the club and everyone around us happy.
“She [Inter] Are a really good team, a strong team that defends well, but they also have a really good striker.
“We were really good in the second half. I don't want to talk about the referee, but every 50-50 decision was for them. We gave everything, but in the end it was, and that made me a bit sad.”