Lee Davy finishes off the week’s Champions League round-up with a sensational victory for Barcelona at the Nou Camp, and a stroll in the park for Borussia Dortmund in Germany.
The shock of Round of 16’s first leg ties had to be Barcelona’s tanning at the hands of Paris St Germain (PSG). The 4-0 loss sent shockwaves throughout world football. Luis Enrique was so tilted by the defeat he told the press he was stepping down at the end of the season. He should have slept on it.
No team had ever overturned a four-goal first leg deficit in the history of this great competition. But if anyone was going to break that record the way Jackie Chan breaks blocks of wood, it was Barcelona. Before the match, you could have gotten +3300 for Barcelona to win the Champions League; now they are the favourites.
Barcelona needed an early goal, and they got it thanks to a spot of six-yard pinball finished off by Luis Suarez. Barcelona was dominant and went in at half time 2-0 in front when an Andres Iniesta backheel ended up in the back of the net courtesy of a deflection from Layvin Kurzawa.