Paris Saint-Germain celebrated a runaway victory in the first leg of the first leg of the Champions League at FC Barcelona after a 1-0 deficit, Liverpool FC beat Leipzig in Budapest and also set the course for the quarter-finals.
Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain are about to reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The English celebrated a 2-0 victory over RB Leipzig on Tuesday in the first leg of the first leg in Budapest because of a serious mistake by ÖFB team player Marcel Sabitzer. The Parisians prevailed against FC Barcelona 4-1 away. The second legs rise on March 10th.
Leipzig got off to a better start in the Puskás Aréna, where the WAC will meet Tottenham in the Europa League on Thursday. Dani Olmo had bad luck with a pole headball in the fifth minute. After about a quarter of an hour, Liverpool found their way into the game, Mohamed Salah failed alone in front of RB goalie Péter Gulácsi (16.). Andrew Robertson almost surprised Gulácsi with a long shot (33rd), before that Leipzig captain Sabitzer had checked Liverpool keeper Alisson from the edge of the penalty area (17th).
After the break, Leipzig’s Christopher Nkunku initially missed a top chance when he found his master in Alisson (47th). Then there were two dropouts from the Saxons, which probably paved the way for Liverpool to reach the quarter-finals. Sabitzer played a hair-raising bad pass to Salah, the Egyptian didn’t let the chance pass and made it 1-0 for the English champions (53rd).
Five minutes later, Nordi Mukiele was extremely unfortunate with a long Curtis Jones ball, Sadio Mané ran alone on goal and scored the second goal of the “Reds”, who had lost three times in a row in the Premier League. Liverpool was far from another defeat this time, Leipzig fought too unimaginatively for the connection in the finish. Ex-Salzburg’s Hwang Hee-chan missed the best chance of the honor goal, his Lupfer just missed the target (93rd).
PSG humiliates FC Barcelona without Neymar
PSG gained an even clearer advantage for the second leg. The game in Barcelona was initially even, Antoine Griezmann (14th) and Mauro Icardi (19th) missed the first opportunities. A little later, Frenkie de Jong fell in a running duel with Layvin Kurzawa, and Lionel Messi (27th) converted the penalty awarded. The Argentine has scored in the Champions League every calendar year since 2005, setting Raul’s record (1995 – 2011).
The star of the evening was Kylian Mbappé. The world champion danced the Barça defense in a small space in the 32nd minute and scored the equalizer, then he brought the guests in the lead in the 65th minute. Previously, Gerard Piqué cleared a pass from Alessandro Florenzi at Mbappé’s feet.
Five minutes later, Moise Kean headed the 3-1 for the Champions League finalists of the previous season after Leandro Paredes’s free-kick, before Mbappe achieved the final score with a flick into the Kreuzeck (85th). With it Paris drove a sovereign victory even without the injured Neymar and took revenge for the legendary 1: 6 against the Catalans at Camp Nou four years ago.
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