He celebrated in my ear after the goal<\/p>I\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n Mart\u00ednez explained that his reaction was unnecessary, but denied having spat directly at him.<\/p>\n\n The spit was one meter away. If it weren’t, he would have been sent off, without a doubt.<\/p>I\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n Acerbi complained to the referee, but no action was taken, nor was there any VAR intervention.<\/p>\n\n Mart\u00ednez was cautioned and substituted by Ronald Ara\u00fajo. Barcelona, who managed to come back from 2-0, saw Acerbi tie the match in the 93rd minute, forcing extra time.<\/p>\n\n Davide Frattesi scored the winning goal, sealing a 7-6 aggregate score after the previous week’s 3-3 draw in Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n Inter’s goalkeeper, Yann Sommer, made an outstanding save on Lamine Yamal, preventing penalties for Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n Barcelona have expressed their discontent with the refereeing, with Pedri asking UEFA to investigate.<\/p>\n\n Inter will face the winner of the match between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal in the final on May 31 in Munich.<\/p>\n\n Meanwhile, Barcelona focuses on LaLiga, where it will seek to extend its lead over Real Madrid in the next Cl\u00e1sico.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u00f1igo Mart\u00ednez, Barcelona defender, denied spitting at Inter Milan’s Francesco Acerbi after the Italian team’s second goal in the Champions League semi-final. The match, which Inter ultimately won 4-3 after extra time, was marked by an incident in the first half, after Hakan \u00c7alhano\u011flu converted a penalty. Acerbi, upon celebrating the goal, seemed to shout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,1071,157,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-4528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-francesco-acerbi","10":"tag-inigo-martinez","11":"tag-spitting"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0507%2Fr1489247_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" "\\"\\"")