1st and 2nd leg total 5-2 wins… Mbappe, responsible for four goals in two matches
Mbafe, the youngest ever to score 25 goals in UCL… Beat Messi’s record
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), a French professional football force, defeated FC Barcelona (Spain), who lost a penalty kick by Lionel Messi, and made it to the quarterfinals of the European Football Federation (UEFA) Champions League (UCL).
PSG drew 1-1 in the 2nd leg of the 2020-2021 UEFA Champions League match against Barcelona held at Parc des Princes in Paris, France on the 11th (Korean time).
PSG, who had a 4-1 win in the first game away from the game, easily beat Barcelona with a total of 5-2 in the first and second games.
PSG, who finished runner-up in the final against Bayern Munich (Germany) last season, will once again try to win.
Barcelona’s first quarter-finals since the 2006-2007 season were frustrated.
The record that reached the quarterfinals for 13 consecutive seasons has stopped.
Barcelona needed a victory of three or more goals this day to make up for the defeat in the first leg, but it was not enough.
In the extra time in the first half, even Messi’s penalty kick was cut off by PSG goalkeeper Keyler Navas’ save, which was a disappointment.
On this day, PSG also broke the winning goal.
In the 31st minute, PSG was penalized for a foul by Clement Langle, and Killian Mbafe, who played the kicker, shook the net without a mistake, leading the team 1-0.
Mbafe’s 6th UCL goal this season.
Mbafe, who wrote a hat-trick in the first leg of the round of 16, scored four goals in two matches against Barcelona alone, making him the player who scored the most goals in a season against Barcelona in this tournament.
In addition, Mbafe, aged 22 and 80 days, broke the record held by Messi (22 and 286 days) and scored 25 UCL goals at the youngest age ever.
Barcelona, who scored the opening goal, also fought back.
In the 37th minute of the first half, Messi put a surprise left-footed medium-range gun into the PSG goalpost to balance it.
However, no more goals were scored.
Barcelona scored a penalty after Levin Quirzawa fouled Antoine Griezmann for the extra time in the first half, but Navas read the shot of Messi as the kicker and blocked it with his body.
This is the first time Messi has missed a chance to score a penalty in the Champions League since the February 2015 match against Manchester City (England).
Barcelona were looking for an additional goal, but in the 16th minute of the second half, only Messi and Griez were blocked by the opponent’s defense.
Unable to overturn the game, Messi was withdrawn from the’Stars’ Feast.
The day before, Cristiano Ronaldo’s team Juventus (Italy) also knelt in Porto (Portugal), and Messi and Ronaldo experienced an early dropout.
This is the first time since the 2004-2005 season that the UCL quarterfinals will be played with both Messi and Ronaldo missing.
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