In his quarter-final go to the Champions League, FC Barcelona faced Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday. On this occasion, Luis Enrique decided to play Martin Montoya in defence, to overcome the lack of Dani Alves, suspended.
From the beginning of the meeting, the intensity was felt in the Lair of the Parisians. This is Javier Pastore, regarded as the 'best player of the world'by Eric Cantona, who showed dangerous first, following a centre Blaise Matuidi (8th). However, the Blaugrana were not slow respond through the inevitable Lionel Messi, whose left foot inside was the post from Salvatore Sirigu (13th). But it was that game postponed. Indeed, it is Neymar which will eventually open the score easily, after having been well served in the axis by the Pulga (18th, 0-1). Already done, the team of Laurent Blanc will face a new problem: the hamstring injury of Thiago Silva who will give his place to David Luiz (21st). Parisians deprived of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Marco Verratti or Thiago Motta were logically dominated at home.
In the second half, PSG players appeared to be of best intentions, while Xavi Hernandez will quickly be replaced by Andrés Iniesta, wounded (53rd). While the match seemed to be balanced, it is Luis Suarez who will make the break playing David Luiz and Marquinhos especially to beat Sirigu (67th, 0-2). In the aftermath, the young German doorman Marc-André ter Stegen will be to divert in corner a beautiful strike from Edinson Cavani (69th). However, El Pistolero had not said its last word in this meeting and will be a double, after having humiliated David Luiz a small bridge (79th, 0-3). Completely overwhelmed the Parisians will still reach save the honor thanks to Van der Wiel who took advantage of a bad clearance of Catalan defence, resulting in Jeremy Mathieu, entered during the game, deflected the ball into his own camp (82nd, 1-3).
Therefore, FC Barcelona was easily (1-3) in Paris to have from now one foot in the Champions League semifinals. Luis Enrique men do not have the time to rest since they face off Valencia this Saturday at 4 p.m., when the shock of the 32nd day of La Liga.
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