PSG overthrow Barca at the end of a crazy match of anthology and rushes into the semi-final
A real comeback!!! Listless for half an hour, the PSG finally took advantage of Araujo’s expulsion to completely reverse this quarter-final second leg of the Champions League and land an unexpected ticket to the semi-final. Opposed to Dortmund in the next round, the Parisians have all the cards in hand to write a magnificent page in their history in C1.
In our veins 💉🩸
Heading to the semi-finals! 👀❤️💙 pic.twitter.com/LvFEjqfHgB
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) April 16, 2024
Seeing Luis Enrique’s crazy space race, leaving his technical area and going behind Xavi’s back to join his players at the edge of the pitch and give them instructions, we understood that the evening had just turned to Montjuic Olympic Stadium.
A few seconds earlier, after an illicit collision in the position of last defender on a Barcola, Araujo gave his body to the homeland and collected a direct ticket for the shower. Eleven against ten for more than an hour, PSG had just seen, on Spanish soil, in the Champions League, a referee change the course of their destiny in their favor.
Paris on a mission. The proof, upon returning from the locker room, is a transfigured Parisian team, the knife between the ratchets, far from the apathetic one, which had made us scream with rage in the first thirty minutes, which returned to the pitch. Rushing to the attack, Fabian Ruiz was a hair’s breadth away from air-conditioning the stadium with a caliente cross shot, but the light came from a little man of 1.72 m named Vitinha, or the Mona Lisa, we don’t know anymore. .
Already a scorer in the first leg, the Portuguese put Paris on the path to the feat with a perfect shot at the entrance to the Barcelona area (1-2, 54th). By falling behind so early in the second half, it is therefore impossible to imagine the old Parisian demons resurfacing. Especially since on the other side, Barça was nothing but excitement and calves fluttering in the wind, like their coach, Xavi, expelled from his bench by the referee.
Mbappé as executioner. But for this match to definitively descend into madness, the hardest part still had to be done: nailing Barcelona’s coffin with blows. And for that, who better than the future Madrid undertaker Kylian Mbappé? It will be done on peno, after a nasty mistake by Cancelo on Ousmane Dembélé, in all the good moves on Tuesday evening. The Parisian number 7 did not tremble and, with a powerful cross shot, sent PSG to the moon and Barça underground.
Despite Barcelona’s vain attempts at the end of the match (and thanks to crazy saves from Marquinhos and Donnarumma), Paris could not miss their chance. As a symbol, Mbappé will finish off Barça for good with a sneaky goal at the very end of the match to write what can now become the most beautiful page in the club’s history in the Champions League.
Ousmane Dembélé Man of the match. @PSG_inside / X (Twitter)
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