In 2017, Barça produced one of the most famous comebacks in European football history. Four years later, and unless they can produce a similar miracle in Paris, there will be no place for them in the Champions League quarter finals this season.
Let’s see what happens in the second leg. But it looks like Messi’s future at Barca is over, and PSG can go on to win this year’s champions league.
Despite taking the lead from the penalty spot, they ended up losing 4-1 at home to a rampant Paris Saint Germain side and now have a massive mountain to climb when this tie resumes on March 10 at the Parc des Princes.
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Without fans inside the stadium, the Champions League atmosphere was never going to be quite the same. But the football was as electric as ever from the moment the referee had blown his whistle for the first time.
Goals looked inevitable and Barça finally broke the deadlock from the penalty spot. De Jong was tripped in the area and Leo Messi made no mistake with the kick. 1-0 Barça! And with a little more luck Dembélé could have made it two… So far so good…
First Half Barcelona 1-1 PSG
PSG, last season’s Champions League finalists, might have been missing both Neymar and Di Maria in attack but their forwards had still given the Barça defence plenty to think about.
It took Mbappe 33 minutes into the first half to equalize Messi’s opener.
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Frustratingly, just when Barça had found their shape again, and PSG were starting to lose some of theirs, the French side scored their second. A powering counter-attack and Mbappé took his chance well.
Barça had barely had time to recover from that and they had another goal to recover from. Kean rose to meet a free kick with his head, and that was three.
Barça needed to get something back to make the task in Paris less cumbersome, and pushed hard to do just that.
But that always brought the risk of leaving too much space at the back, and Mbappé pounced on the moment. That was his hat-trick, and that was Barça in deeper trouble than ever. And that’s the match report from FCBarcelona vs Paris Saint Germain.
First Leg Scoreline
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