“If they can score four, we can score six,” Luis Enrique had said. No one believed him and he probably didn’t even believe himself, but it happened.Talk about dreaming the impossible dream.Barcelona completed one of the most extraordinary comebacks in European football history to knock Paris St Germain out of the Champions League on Wednesday by coming back from a 4- 0 deficit to win 6-1 .
No team has ever come back from a four-goal deficit in a knockout tie.
Barcelona were 3 – 0 ahead by the time the second half had got underway.Then Edison Cavani pulled one back for PSG and it looked like the dream was over.
They still required three goals in the 88th minute.Two late strikes from Neymar then brought the scores level and Roberto sealed the impossible triumph by scoring a late late injury time winner.
Now they are in the Champions League quarter-finals for the 10th year in a row. “I have never experienced anything like it,” said a breathless Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti.
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