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After a late-season slump that shattered their treble hopes and has left them wondering where the next victory will come from, Inter Milan are at risk of coming away from the Champions League semi-finals.

Inter, who have lost three games in a row without scoring a goal, could not have anticipated the daunting matchup with Barcelona on Wednesday.

With only four matches left, Napoli held a three-point lead over Napoli in Serie A, and Inter was eliminated from the Italian Cup following their disappointing 3-0 derby defeat at AC Milan last week.

The team led by Simone Inzaghi appears to be stale and without any fresh ideas. Roma lost 1-0 at home on Sunday in front of a soporific San Siro crowd, which was even more incongruent with the upbeat atmosphere that accompanied their thrilling victory over Bayern Munich two weeks prior.

On Sunday, Inzaghi said, “We deserved more and created circumstances where we failed to get anything, primarily because we lacked sharpness.”

“We need to find that from within ourselves, but a positive outcome might have given us more energy.” Both mentally and physically, we must recharge our batteries.

During Claudio Ranieri’s disastrous time on the Nerazzurri bench, Inter last lost three games in a row without scoring.

Roma last defeated Inter in October 2022. In the final of that season’s competition in Istanbul, Inter defeated Barcelona 1-0 three days later, narrowly falling to Manchester City.

15 years ago, when Barca defeated Inter in the semi-finals, the eventual treble winners almost lost to Roma under the direction of Ranieri before triumphing in the championship match.

Also read: Mohamed Salah Cements’ Place As Liverpool’s Egyptian King.

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Inter will also have one day less rest after their match against Roma was moved back to Sunday, so that it won’t clash with Pope Francis’ funeral, giving France defender Benjamin Pavard less time to recover from an ankle sprain that he picked up over the weekend.

Real Madrid and Barca both won the Cope del Rey on Saturday, but Barca are now on a high following their former foe’s petulant meltdown as they prepare to suffer a third consecutive defeat at the Clasico.

The best way to be in April and still have something to play for, wing-back Carlos Augusto said on Sunday. “We’re not scared, we’re not scared.

“We have a chance to achieve something extraordinary, and we don’t have any fears.” This team is always focused and has already accomplished great things.

Since Lautaro Martinez has looked worn and frustrated, Inzaghi will be hoping that Marcus Thuram will be available because his replacements have failed to do so.

With goals that first secured Inter’s position in the top eight of the league, Captain Martinez’s team advanced to the semi-finals before dragging his team to the final four.

Since the start of the year, the 27-year-old has scored seven goals in five Champions League games, accounting for half of his total goals.

He scored both goals against Bayern and away from home, and he excelled against the Bundesliga champions-in-waiting two weeks ago, when Inter appeared to be leading the charge in the world.

Inter are now working to salvage something from a season that appeared to be a dream but quickly turns into a nightmare.

Play was interrupted at the Madrid Open on Monday when a power cut struck the city after world number four Coco Gauff and rising Russian star Mirra Andreeva booked their   quarter-finals spots.

A power cut affecting “the whole of the Iberian peninsula and part of France”, according to Portuguese electricity network operator REN, halted matches shortly after 10. 30am GMT.

On Centre Court, the match between Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov and British qualifier Jacob Fearnley was suspended when the Bulgarian was leading 6-4, 5-4 with his opponent serving to stay in the match.

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“The outage is preventing the use of electronic line calling systems and also left a spider cam dangling over the court inside Monolo Santana Stadium,” the ATP said on its website.

Tournament organisers said on social media they were “working to restore” power “as quickly as possible”, without giving a timetable.

Before the cut hit, American Gauff beat Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-4, 6-2 in the last 16.

Teenager Andreeva also progressed as she saw of Ukrainian Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-1, 6-4.

When play resumes in Madrid, Stefanos Tsitsipas  will take on Lorenzo Musetti  and fifth seed Jack Draper  is due to play Matteo Berrettini.

Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian hero and living legend, won the Premier League title with one of the greatest all-time individual seasons at Anfield, igniting his remarkable legacy.

As of this writing, Liverpool equaled Manchester United’s record of 20 English top-flight titles on Sunday, with the 32-year-old scoring 28 goals and providing 18 assists.

With Salah now firmly entrenched in the debate over who was the Premier League’s greatest player, receiving a third player of the year award from both his fellow players and football writers seems a formality.

His combined goals and assists total of 46 in a 38-game season are a new Premier League record, and it appears that his all-time mark of 47 will likely expire before the season is over.

Salah is among the top 10 for assists and has the fifth-most goals in Premier League history with 185 goals.

When Liverpool paid Roma £34 million ($45 million) for his services at Anfield in 2017, the forward did not become a superstar.

Since moving from his native Switzerland to Swiss side Basel as a 19-year-old, he had struggled for consistency and end product. He was a pacy winger with promise.

After only 19 games, Salah was thrown out by the Blues, who had already made his first appearance in the Premier League at Chelsea.

Before joining Roma permanently, the forward had loan spells at Fiorentina and Roma.

Even though he wasn’t Jurgen Klopp’s first choice, his performances there restored Salah’s reputation and stoked Liverpool into taking a chance on him.

The German manager had hoped for Julian Brandt, but the club’s recruitment team convinced him instead, and together they helped bring the Reds back to the top of English and European football.

In a stunning debut season, Salah scored 44 goals to give Liverpool a Champions League title and a top-four Premier League position, which Klopp was quick to accept.

“Iconic figure”

Soon after, the trophy-stuff began to accumulate on Merseyside and he was officially christened “The Egyptian King.”

After being forced off in the first half due to a shoulder injury, Salah was left in tears after Real Madrid’s loss in the 2018 Champions League final, which also limited his impact for Egypt at the World Cup a few weeks later.

He scored in the Champions League final one year later as Liverpool won the first trophy of the Klopp era against Tottenham.

In 2020, the club won its first Premier League title in 30 years, earning an FA Cup and two League Cups in the process, as well as a Champions League final appearance.

Salah was named one of Time magazine’s “iconic figures for Egyptians, Scousers, and Muslims the world over” in their 2019 list of the 100 most powerful people.

In response to Israeli airstrikes in October 2023, Salah has used that profile to call for greater gender equality in the Arab world and forbid humanitarian aid entry into Gaza.

He has largely spoken on the spot, though.

Salah, a fitness enthusiast, regularly shares photos of his workouts on social media, citing this as evidence that allowed him to remain among the world’s elite despite his advancing years.

Many people thought that Klopp’s emotional departure from last year represented the end of a era for the Liverpool side.

Salah has instead served as the catalyst for Arne Slot’s unexpected triumph in the Premier League.

Because we had a fitness test the day before we arrived, he was our fittest player, said Slot.

It also provides details about his season plans. It also provides a lot of insight into his personality.