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Champions League: PSG, Barcelona Stave in front of Aston Villa, Dortmund in the chaotic quarter -finals

Champions League: PSG, Barcelona Stave in front of Aston Villa, Dortmund in the chaotic quarter -finals

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Paris Saint-Germain dropped an angry comeback from the Aston Villa to make Barcelona almost unforgettable in Europe in the semi-finals of the Champions League on Tuesday evening.

At half-time of two simultaneous quarter-finals, each favorite had a three-goal aggregate lead. Barca held his advantage and hit Dortmund 5: 3 over two legs. PSG was 5-1 in the first half on Tuesday and looked comfortable.

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In the second, however, the villa fought within 5: 4 and feared that the fears of a further collapse of the Champions League spread across Paris. The French champions in a kettle made of noise in the English Midlands found control of a chaotic quarter -finals. The villa scored in the 55th minute and again in the 57th and came on.

But PSG stood the relentless pressure, stabilized in the last 15 minutes and led to Semis, where he faces either Arsenal or Real Madrid.

Barcelona, ​​who lost 3-1 on Tuesday, but has progressed with a two-goal pillow, will either play Inter Milan or Bayern Munich. The second set of the quarter -finals is Wednesday (3 p.m., Paramount+).

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However, the story of Tuesday was the later losers. Her persistence was inspiring in the face of setbacks and deficits in the first leg. In Dortmund, Germany, Serhou Guirassys Hattrick was afraid of Barca. In Birmingham, England, the villa overwhelmed a team that has not yet lost in its domestic league this season.

With a 4-0 lead in the first leg, Barca finally kept Dortmund up to the arm length.

PSG, on the other hand, almost succumbed to a comeback for eternity.

The night started with the Parisians. Villa played with passion and verve; PSG countered with precision and went 1-0, then 2-0 in the night and a total of 5: 1 on the back of a 3-1 victory last week in the last week.

However, the villa was undeterred. It pressed opportunistic and unconditional. It flowed forward as a robust midfield unit. It wasted the chances and then finally took one in the 34th minute. Youri Tielemans scored a goal, pumped his fists and then ran back to the middle circle to get more.

John McGinn got a second ten minutes in the second half. Two minutes later, Marcus Rashford Bamboozled PSG and Ezri Konsa scored a third. Villa Park broke out. Faith went from the souls of 40,000 fans to the villa player and in the entire second city of England.

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Villa drove this wave of passion for five, 10, 15, 20 minutes.

Tielemans scored almost a third in five minutes.

Marco Asensio, the Spanish attacker from PSG to Villa, was in 1: V-1 with PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, but Donnarumma may have made the best of his five parades.

Two minutes later, Konsa hurry with a teasing Rashford cross and shortened a free header. But it seemed certain that a villa equalization came.

But PSG recovered. It survived the rush. In the third minute of stoppage time, thanks to defender William Pacho, who blocked the goal list a few meters from the goal line, it survived a clean volleye from Ian Maatsen in the third minute of stoppage time.

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And so PSG and Barca were big and confident at the end of a hectic, gripping Champions League night.

A brass-by blow summary of the two games is below.

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