PSG riled Barca supporters by coming back on to the pitch after the break a few minutes late but the Nou Camp was soon celebrating a third as Messi powered a penalty past Trapp after Neymar had been tripped by Thomas Meunier.
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Barcelona came from 4-0 down in the first leg to secure a famous victory, with Keane summing up the mood of all onlookers as he suggested Luis Enrique’s men deserved all the glory after their historic triumph. After suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, Barca is on the verge of elimination from the Champions League. At 3-1, the game was over.
Barcelona were battling against the odds as no team in the history of this competition had overturned a 0-4 deficit from the first leg.
According to FiveThirtyEight.com’s Soccer Power Index, Barcelona had a 7 percent chance to advance and a 3 percent chance to win the Champions League. Barcelona needs at least four goals to avoid being eliminated in the last 16 for the first time in almost a decade.
The Blaugrana looked to be out of the tie after the first leg at Parc des Princes, but an early Luis Suarez goal gave them hope.
Suarez’s goal was a good omen.
In a game that ebbed and flowed and never stopped from the first minute until the last and conjured every human emotion for even neutral fans, Barcelona came out on top as PSG travel back to Paris wondering what exactly happened at the Camp Nou. It had no away goals and needed a virtual miracle to have any chance of moving on to he final eight. With a big picture of PSG players complaining to the referee after the award of Barcelona’s second penalty, AS ran the headline “Comeback With Repairs”, implying that the officials’ influence on the game helped the home side pull off their remarkable victory.
Despite Neymar, Suarez and Messi’s heroics, it was Roberto who proved to be Barca’s unlikely hero as he choose the flawless time to score his first goal of the season. Marquinhos tried to marshal the ball out of play in the area but Iniesta got in front of the Brazilian and back-heeled it towards goal.
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The La Liga giants are now 11/4 favourites to go on and win the Champions League with Sun Bets. After losing by the same scoreline in Munich, Bayern Munich went to Barcelona and recorded another clean sheet, ending with a 7-0 aggregate score in the 2013 semifinals.
