By Gustavo Castilho
Messi scores, misses penalty and says goodbye to the Champions League
Barcelona even tried. At a certain point, the 2017 film came to pass in the minds of fans of the Catalan team and the French, but this time the Parisians got the better of the tie in 1 to 1 and achieved the classification.
Playing in Parque dos Princes, in France, Barcelona was far superior in the game, with several opportunities wasted. In a rare attack by PSG, VAR correctly scored a penalty on Icardi, converted by Mbappé. Barcelona did not let their guard down and went up, until Messi hit a shot from outside the area and left everything the same. Before going to the break, the referee signaled a favorable penalty to the visitors, only this time the star of shirt 10 was intercepted by Navas who made a beautiful defense. In the final stage, Barcelona seemed to tire and did not have the strength to press and score at least three more goals, which would take the match to overtime.
Mbappé was the face of the two clashes. The striker scored four goals in the two games, three at the Camp Nou, which was instrumental in PSG’s almost anticipated classification, which built an aggregate score of 5×2. On the other hand, since 2005, the duo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo were not left out of the quarterfinals of Champions. During this period, at least one of them was stamping the club’s place for the next phase.
Now PSG awaits the new opponent that will be defined in the draw that will be held on Friday (19/03).
