PSG seem To place the stress on from the beginning. Dembele and Mbappe seek out a route through the Barca backline though the hosts stand solid. Intention kick to Barcelona. 

PSG must head out to get the game, perhaps leaving gaps with the likes of Raphinha and Lamine Yamal to use. It looks set to get a thrilling recreation, with one of these European mega-clubs exiting the competition at the end of it. 

The Barcelona midfielder is booked, presumably for your dive, during the aftermath of that penalty attraction. 

Barca obtain Yamal on the ideal. He attempts to curl one particular into the middle but his cross strikes Gundogan on the chest.

We're fewer than 5 minutes faraway from kick-off now. Barcelona edged the primary leg having a 3-2 victory at Parc des Princes but PSG have the quality to show that close to in Spain. 

forty eight' PSG are off to A fast start off With this next fifty percent and already have their equalizer just 4 minutes after the split, courtesy of an outstanding strike for Dembele towards his former crew. It truly is even in Paris now.

Ilkay Gundogan can take a tumble from the box and the house group desires a penalty. There was little or no Make contact with there plus the referee claims no. 

Just after the initial leg in Paris, matters all of a sudden seemed to site be clicking for Barca. They went into this sport unbeaten in 13 matches — a run that started out when Xavi reported he would leave in the summer — and with a sense that their season might have an unexpectedly positive end.

"We are halfway there to the following spherical. It really is a little gain but a large get. We have to do very well versus Cadiz [at the weekend] then we're in your own home for the 2nd leg."

Vitinha! What stunning strike in the Portuguese midfielder. You cannot cease viewing this for a single moment. 4-four on mixture! Luis Enrique's Guys have 30 minutes to locate A further target. Gundogan goes near now and Xavi is shedding his mood. What a turnaround!

Xavi’s side have a person stage by now within the semi-finals following very last Wednesday’s extraordinary Exhibit in the French funds.

"You need to play to be a workforce and check out to overcome that Barcelona team. We're going to go there with the top Frame of mind and commitment to gain the match."

Ferran Torres has only just entered the sport in its place and he is appropriate to the action, latching onto Gundogan's free kick. He can't quite change but he wins his crew a corner kick. 

After protecting his defence for the handful of more seconds, Araujo at last trudges from the sector. It looks like a fantastic selection, Barcola was through this site on read this target.