Inter Milan players celebrate their team’s 4-3 victory. Carl Recine/Getty Images

After 120 minutes of pure drama, magical moments and stunning performances, there is only one thing we know for sure: few will be sleeping in Milan tonight.

Last week’s first leg – which finished 3-3 – was incredible, but somehow this return match was even better.

Inter Milan started far the stronger of the two sides and raced into a 2-0 lead at half-time through Lautaro Martínez’s opener and Hakan Çalhanoğlu’s penalty.

Barcelona looked way off it in the opening 45 minutes and knew it needed something special in the second half to get itself back into contention – and that’s exactly what the Spanish giant produced.

In less than six minutes, Barça had leveled the scoreline through Eric García’s fine finish and Dani Olmo’s header, as the San Siro was stunned into silence.

Then, with the Blaugrana dominating the ball, the visitors thought they had scored a late winner when Raphinha fired a shot into the bottom corner of the net in the 88th minute.

Barcelona’s Raphinha scores his team’s third goal. Marco Luzzani/Getty Images

That seemed to be it, there was no way Inter could muster enough energy to find another goal and Barça fans must have started looking at flights to the final in Munich.

But then, in the 93rd minute, Francesco Acerbi sent Nerazzurri fans into a frenzy after smashing the ball into the roof of Barcelona’s net to level the scores.

Acerbi, 37, was in tears and pointed to the sky after scoring his first ever Champions League goal as mayhem played out around him.

Extra-time then loomed for both sides, but it was Inter who got the better of it, spurred on by the home support.

The winning goal came in the 99th minute after brilliant hold up play by striker Marcus Thuram, who laid the ball off to Davide Frattesi in the box. The midfielder kept his composure to guide his shot into the corner of the net to send the Italian side into dreamland.

“What happened? I don’t know! I celebrated so loudly that my head was spinning,” Frattesi said after the game.

Inter Milan’s Davide Frattesi celebrates after scoring his squad’s fourth goal. Luca Bruno/AP

But, naturally, Barça wasn’t done and almost found another equalizer in the final moments of extra-time. First, Robert Lewandowski headed just over the bar from a couple meters out, before Inter goalkeeper Yann Sommer produced a world-class save to deny Lamine Yamal’s effort from nestling into the back of the net.

“I’m very happy, we played an incredible match. Which save will I remember? The last one on Lamine Yamal; he is a great player and, fortunately, it didn’t go in,” Player of the Match Sommer said.

“Many teams would have given up after going down 3-2, but we didn’t and managed to come back.”

After tonight’s win, you feel it was destiny for Inter Milan to reach the Champions League final where it will meet either PSG or Arsenal.

The second semifinal is set for Wednesday night and CNN Sports will be across all the action live once again.

Key Stat: This was the joint-highest scoring semifinal tie in Champions League history, along with Liverpool’s 7-6 win against Roma in 2018.

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By choosing accommodations that cater to the unique needs of families and implementing smart travel strategies, you can transform the experience from a logistical challenge into a memorable adventure for the whole team – both on and off the field. So pack your bags, prepare to cheer, and remember that with a little planning, you can conquer the sidelines and make every tournament a win.

The jubilant scenes that greeted the final whistle of Crystal Palace’s FA Cup semi-final win over Aston Villa soon gave way to a scramble for tickets to the match that can’t be missed.

For most Palace fans, the commute to Wembley Stadium will be relatively straightforward. But for others, it will be a labour of love as the Eagles take on Manchester City bidding to win their first major trophy.

Ross Phillips, 39, grew up in Australia with English parents. But the connection he felt to his mum’s Croydon roots solidified on holiday to England in 1994, when he first visited Selhurst Park.

“It was an amazing feeling, hearing football fans singing live for the first time,” he told BBC Sport.

“As soon as mum showed me her old school in South Norwood I had this community feeling and a special place in my heart. This club was for me and I’ve been addicted ever since.”

Ross has now lived in 10 different countries, including Ukraine for the last two years as an English teacher. With no flights in and out of Kyiv since the start of the war, he’s had to take a 10-hour train to Lviv near the Polish border, a separate four-hour train to Krakow and finally a three-hour flight to London.

“It’s a nightmare, it’s so tiring just to get out of Kiev with all the military stops and trains” he says.

Despite the tribulations though, it was unthinkable that he would ever skip this game.

“We don’t make the final often and I’ll live my life in regret if I miss them lifting their first piece of silverware. If they beat City I would die a happy man.”

You can watch the BBC’s live FA Cup final coverage from 15:25 BST on Saturday on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and online, and listen live on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Manchester United will hold a barbeque at the club’s Carrington training ground to celebrate if they beat Tottenham Hotspur in next week’s Europa League final.

And no parade is planned should they win the tournament.

Players are also being restricted to two free tickets each for the match, with on-the-day travel to the final in Bilbao on Wednesday, 21 May.

The decisions come after a series of cost-cutting measures at the club which have included redundancies and the removal of free lunches for staff.

While United’s squad have been told they can purchase up to 10 more tickets for the game against Spurs at San Mames Stadium, they will also be responsible for organising how friends and relatives get in and out of the northern Spanish city.

United say they are committed to ensuring as many tickets as possible from the club’s official 15,000 allocation go to supporters.

At the weekend it was revealed staff will not receive free tickets for the game as previously used to be the case. Instead a viewing party is being hosted in central Manchester.

Gary Neville believes Arsenal can turn round their semi-final deficit against Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League final.

Mikel Arteta’s Gunners go to Paris needing to overturn PSG’s 1-0 win from the first leg at the Emirates Stadium, if they want to reach the Munich final on May 31.

Arsenal lost the first leg thanks to Ousmane Dembele’s fourth-minute opener and while the Gunners saw a Mikel Merino header ruled out for offside, PSG were unlucky not to add to their lead as Bradley Barcola and Goncalo Ramos missed big opportunities.

“Arsenal have got a chance on Wednesday,” says Neville. “It’s a completely different game obviously, it goes without saying. But you can go there and cause some shocks.

“I’ve been there a couple of times and seen Real Madrid win there and I saw Manchester United win there. PSG get very nervous if the wrong things happen for them in that stadium.

“If Arsenal can just hang in there, stay in the game and score a goal – then before you know it, all of a sudden that stadium doesn’t become an asset for PSG, it becomes a problem for them. Because there’s such an expectation on them to get into Champions League finals and win it.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports’ Peter Smith and Dougie Critchley explain the scale of Arsenal’s task to overturn their Champions League semi-final deficit to Paris Saint-Germain – and why there’s reason for hope…

“It’s going to be difficult. It was a great performance by PSG at the Emirates, and it wasn’t a great performance by Arsenal the other night. But Arsenal will be better.

“If they can stay into that game in the final 15 to 20 minutes, then they have a chance.”

‘It’s a career-defining game for Arteta’s Arsenal’

Arsenal go into their do-or-die Champions League semi-final second leg in poor form, having failed to win in their last three matches.

On Saturday, Mikel Arteta named a strong team to face Bournemouth – with PSG resting the entire team that played at the Emirates in their defeat to Strasbourg. Arsenal ended up losing 2-1, conceding twice from set-pieces.

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Highlights from the Premier League match between Arsenal and Bournemouth.

“I think the worry for Arsenal on Saturday was that they played their strongest side and still lost,” says Neville. “But they’ve got a big game midweek and I genuinely think Arsenal can do it.

In that stadium, there’s such an expectation about PSG and them winning the Champions League and they build themselves up. It’ll be a hostile atmosphere for the first 10-20 minutes and if PSG score, it’ll continue to be hostile because they’ll be right at it.

“However, if you can get a goal – which I think Arsenal definitely can whether it be from a set-piece, a counter-attack, or a bit of brilliance, whatever it might be – I think you can see and feel it change in that stadium.

“I do think they’ll finish the job and finish second in the league. It’s a very big game for Arsenal and it is a season-defining game. It could be career-defining.

“Those types of games – coming back from 1-0 behind away from home against PSG – is something that ultimately, with what they did in the quarter-final against Real Madrid, will be an absolutely incredible achievement.”

Arteta ‘very confident’ of progression to the final

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Speaking to Sky Sports, Mikel Arteta insists he’s confident that Arsenal will go to Paris and beat Paris Saint-Germain, to reach the UEFA Champions League final.

Arsenal manager Arteta, meanwhile, believes the hard knocks his team have faced this season have the team in a prime condition to complete a comeback.

The Gunners have picked up multiple long-term injuries this season – with Gabriel, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus currently out and Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard suffering serious mid-season injuries before returning.

“This season is the best example of what this club and team is about,” Arteta told Sky Sports. “The resilience, the character and how we have overcome so many difficult situations.

“Even though we have won a lot of games and are in big games in the biggest competitions, we are still not satisfied.

“The words I would use is ‘win in any context’. That’s what this team is made of. It doesn’t matter what they throw at us, or what happens – we will have the mentality that we’re going to be able to win it and find a way to be better than the opposition. And get the result that we want.”

Asked if he is confident of going through to the final – where they would face one of Barcelona or Inter Milan – Arteta responded: “100 per cent, because we’ve been able to do that – compete.

“And the margins against them [in the first leg] were tiny small. Tiny, tiny, tiny small. I’m very confident that we’re going to do it.”

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson reflects on the Gunners’ 1-0 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League semi-final and believes the home side looked ‘scared’ in the first leg.

Arsenal will welcome back Thomas Partey to their Champions League squad after he missed the first leg through suspension, but there is concern for Jurrien Timber’s fitness as the Dutchman missed the defeat to Bournemouth.

Sky Sports’ Paul Merson pointed towards the midfield being a crucial area of the pitch because Partey’s return will allow Declan Rice to play higher up.

The England midfielder scored from an advanced position against Bournemouth on Saturday, but Merson has also called on Martin Odegaard to step up after criticism over his performances.

“They missed Thomas Partey unbelievably. It stopped Declan Rice bombing forward,” said Merson about Arsenal’s first leg defeat.

“Declan’s playing as well as anybody at the moment. He’s bombing forward, making runs, getting into the box. One of their only chances they did have – the Leandro Trossard chance – that was from Declan Rice, making a bursting run. We didn’t get as many of them because of the position he had to play.

“Martin Odegaard will have to turn up. I’m a big fan of Odegaard, but he didn’t perform the other night.

“But they’ve got another chance. They should have been completely blown out of this competition the other night. They had chances, PSG.

“I think it’s down to the first goal. I think if Arsenal score the first goal, that wipes out Tuesday’s performance and it’s game on. But I think if Paris Saint-Germain score first, then I can’t see any way back.

“I know people will say, ‘Well, Villa went 4-1 down’, but Villa were at home. They had nothing to lose. They had a right go, scored two goals in three minutes and they got back in the game.

“People will say, ‘Oh, Arsenal won at the Bernabeu’, but Arsenal won on the last kick of the game with Gabriel Martinelli running away from the defender with a minute to go. If it’s 1-1 at the Parc des Princes, PSG are not going to be playing gung-ho football.

“I think Arsenal are right up against it, but with Partey back you never know.”

Vieira: Arsenal have the quality to win in Paris

Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira backs Arsenal to beat Paris Saint-Germain and progress to the Champions League final.

Former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira believes the Gunners have the quality to turn the tie around.

“It is challenging and difficult when you lose the first leg at home, but we’re talking about the Arsenal Football Club and I believe that there is enough quality in that team to go and win it in Paris,” he told Sky Sports. “I think they are capable of doing it.

“It has been really challenging and really difficult, but at the end they are there in the semi-final of the Champions League, they are second in the Premier League, so I still believe that’s still a good season for the club.

“I don’t have any doubt about the spirit of the team. I don’t have any doubt about the quality of the players, the quality of the manager that they have and important players coming back from suspension, from injuries, and they can do a result in Paris.”