Barcelona fans celebrate incredible Champions League comeback

Barcelona join Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid as teams to have secured their places in the quarter-finals.

Barcelona became the first team in Champions League history to overturn a four-goal deficit in a knockout tie as a stoppage-time goal by Sergio Roberto completed an extraordinary 6-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.

Roberto didn’t play most of the game, but he looked good after coming on for Rafinha. “When you analyse the chances we had, I don’t really remember more than one Stoke chance”. “A team like this can do anything”. 4-0 was hard, but it is football.

Nonetheless, BT has on occasion broadcast certain fixtures for free – as was the case with Wednesday night’s thrilling showdown at the Nou Camp which was available on Freeview. “What defines this victory is the faith that the players and fans had”. “This is a nightmare for everybody”. Is Unai Emery still credible? This is not the moment to talk of this. “We need to learn from it”, said Emery.

But in this case it was not a Brazilian, Argentine or Uruguayan who did the damage, but fittingly at Barca’s home ground, a Spaniard in the form of Sergi Roberto, who drilled home the victor deep in extra time. Neymar was the catalyst as he netted from a majestic free-kick with two minutes left and then the Brazilian scored a penalty as the clock ticked into added time following a Marquinhos foul on Luis Suárez.

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He said in Marca: “Messi will renew, I’m sure of that”. “We were prepared for all this”. Tomorrow, what will be different is that Barca will have the fans behind them.

Barcelona’s stunning comeback against Paris St-Germain was “crazy and unbelievable”, according to midfielder Ivan Rakitic.

“We were calmer in the second half and better positioned”. When PSG failed to clear a loose ball in the box he clipped a header goalwards with his back to goal. They got off to a fast start, and took a 2-0 lead into halftime.

“But it’s been an wonderful few weeks for them”.

“I would say to the hospitals of Barcelona to hire nurses”.