Rakitic struggling to comprehend Barcelona’s history-making victory over PSG

After PSG pulled back from 3-0 down, the 3-1 deficit meant that Barca no longer needed one goal to tie.

The Brazilian forward played the game of his life as Barcelona made up a 0-4 first leg deficit by winning 6-1 in front of almost 100,000 ecstatic fans at the Camp Nou stadium for an astonishing 6-5 aggregate triumph.

More than that, French soccer is oozing with young talent: the 21-year PSG midfielder Adrien Rabiot, 18-year-old Kylian Mbappe at Monaco, 19-year-old Ousmane Dembele at Borussia Dortmund, through to the quarterfinals after a 4-0 win over Benfica in the second leg, to name just three players.

And that was still the case in the 88th minute.

Sergio Roberto then scored in the 95th minute to help Barcelona win.

“I saw Sergi Roberto score a lot of goals when he was a kid, but I often joke with him that these days he couldn’t score under a rainbow”.

Luis Suarez, 29, kicked off this history-making comeback two minutes into the game, securing the first goal.

Three minutes after the break it was 3-0 as Thomas Meunier brought Neymar down in the PSG box.

And it was Neymar who made it all possible with two goals and an assist in seven magical minutes to cap one of his finest and most influential games for the Spanish giants.

The Catalans owed their second to another piece of slack defending, however, as Iniesta nudged his way past Marquinhos in the area to knock the ball back into the danger zone and it bounced off the swinging leg of Kurzawa and into the far corner.

Lionel Messi hit Barca’s third from the spot on 50 minutes to set up a thrilling finish to the game. But he consults with the ref behind the goal and changes his decision.

Goal 4: Edinson Cavani for PSG: Edinson Cavani has time and the space to unleash a fierce right footed half volley into the roof of the net. The Brazilian scored on a free kick only a player of his caliber could score on, bending his shot around a PSG wall and squeezing in at the near post.

Barcelona sent goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen to the front, leaving the team’s goal empty. In the 41st minute (of the second half) we were out, but people kept believing and with the two substitutes we got the goal.

Several PSG players apologised to fans in the wake of the defeat, which club president Nasser al Khelaifi described as a “nightmare”.

Barcelona manager Luis Enrique has reportedly claimed his plans to leave Barcelona at the end of the season were “just a bit of banter”.