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Dhe FC Barcelona and superstar Lionel Messi missed the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 14 years. The Spanish club missed some of the best chances in the entertaining second leg at Paris St. Germain and only scored 1-1 (1: 1), which was not enough to advance after 1: 4 in the first leg.
World champion Kylian Mbappé, already the hero with his three goals in the first leg, led the Parisian star team to the lead with a penalty (31st) even without the injured Neymar. Barça only registered something countable with a goal dreamed of by Messi (37th), shortly before the break, the superstar missed a penalty in the premier category for the first time since 2015 (45th + 3rd).
The last time the Catalans were eliminated in the round of 16 against Liverpool was in 2007. Last year’s finalist, Paris, who with international Julian Draxler in the starting line-up, offered his opponent a surprising number of spaces, reached the quarterfinals for the second time in the last five years.
The prerequisites were clear: for Barça and national goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen to once again perform a miracle in the second leg against PSG as in 2017 in the crazy 6-1 at Camp Nou, the Catalans had to recover four goals. And it was precisely with this route that the Spanish approached the game at the Prinzenpark.
Ahead of newly elected Barça president Joan Laporta, exdortmund Ousmane Dembele in particular missed several times, but Sergino Dest (23rd) and Messi (45th + 3) had the best, both in the American shot and in the free kick. Penalty from the Argentine identification figure, however, the strong PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas directed the ball to the crossbar.
Previously, the Costa Rican goalkeeper did not have the slightest opportunity in Messi’s fantastic long-distance shot from about 30 meters like Ter Stegen on the other side with Mbappé’s penalty. Barça had much more possession after the break. Messi, whose future is open after his contract ended in the summer, missed the next big opportunity (61). Little by little, Ronald Koeman’s team was running out of time.
