Football match FC Barcelona - Paris Saint-Germain on March 8, 2017

The football match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain was the second leg of the second leg of the last 16 for the two clubs in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League season . It took place on March 8, 2017 at Camp Nou in Barcelona . FC Barcelona won the game 6-1, making them the first team in the UEFA Champions League to advance to the next round after trailing four goals in the first leg. The game is mainly because of the comeback in the final minutes as a miracle from the Camp Nou , wonders of Barcelona or as La Remontada ( span. The comeback ), respectively.

Match report

FC Barcelona had to make up four goals behind to reach the quarter-finals after losing 4-0 in the first leg at Parc des Princes .

Luis Suárez scored the opening goal for the Spaniards with a header in the third minute. After the Parisians had cleared the ball out of the goal, goal-line technology had to help and finally showed that the ball was behind the line. After several more attempts by the Catalans to score, the 2-0 was scored by a Parisian in the 40th minute: After a failed pass from Andrés Iniesta , Layvin Kurzawa underwent an own goal in an attempt to clarify .

The second half started with a penalty for Barça in the 50th minute; the stumbling Thomas Meunier fell in the penalty area in the path of Neymar . Lionel Messi converted the penalty with a left-footed shot. As a result, however, PSG scored the 3-1 goal in the 62nd minute when Edinson Cavani hit a right-footed shot under the crossbar after a Kurzawa header. Because of the away goals rule , Barcelona needed a five-goal win after that goal to secure progress. Three minutes before the end of the official season, however, it was only 3: 1, so that three goals were missing.

In the 88th minute, Neymar hit with a free kick. In the 90th minute, Suárez was fouled by Marquinhos in the penalty area and Neymar converted the following penalty to score his second goal that evening. This was followed by five minutes of stoppage time. In the 95th minute Sergi Roberto finally scored the decisive 6: 1 after an assist by Neymar.

meaning

FC Barcelona are the first team in the UEFA Champions League to make up four-goal deficit from the first leg.

Overall, FC Barcelona was the fourth team in the European Cup to do so. Until then, these were Leixões SC , who won the second leg 5-0 in the first round of the 1961/62 European Cup Winners' Cup after a 6-2 defeat at FC La Chaux-de-Fonds , FK Partizan Belgrade , who played in The 1984/85 UEFA Cup second round was followed by a 6-0 defeat at Queens Park Rangers 4-0 at home, and Real Madrid , who won 1: 1 at Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 1985/86 UEFA Cup second round : 5 lost, but moved into the quarter-finals after a 4-0 win in the second leg due to the away goals rule . At the Wunder von der Grotenburg , Bayer Uerdingen was in the 1985/86 European Cup Winners' Cup after a 2-0 defeat in the first leg against Dynamo Dresden in the quarter-final second leg at half-time with 1: 3, also with a total of four goals difference, and ultimately pulled back with a 7: 3 -Win still in the semi-finals.