Barcelona have booked their place within the Champions League semi-finals after a 5-3 mixture victory over Borussia Dortmund, who received 3-1 within the quarter-final second leg at Sign Iduma Park.
The hosts wanted a powerful begin of their bid to overturn the primary leg deficit, and so they acquired it with the opening objective coming inside the primary 11 minutes. Wojciech Szczesmy fouled Pascal Gross contained in the penalty space, and that allowed Serhou Guirassy to search out the again of the web from 12 yards – which he did with a Panenka effort.
Barcelona had been in a position to keep away from conceding for the rest of the primary half, however simply minutes into the second interval, Dortmund introduced the combination deficit again to inside two. And it was Guirassy that discovered the again of the web once more as he headed dwelling from shut vary following a nook.
Dortmund began to up the tempo after that, however simply minutes later, they had been hit with a sucker punch as Barcelona acquired a objective again. Fermin Lopez delivered the ball from the best, and it was changed into his personal internet by unlucky defender Ramy Bensebaini.
That was an enormous blow for Dortmund, though they did handle to get one other objective on 75 minutes to make it 5-3 on mixture. A poor clearance from Ronald Araujo got here to Guirassy a six yards out, and he made no mistake to finish his hat-trick – and within the course of, he overtook Raphinha to develop into the Champions League’s prime goalscorer.
Fortuitously, Barcelona had been in a position to see the match out as Dortmund ran out of steam. It signifies that Hansi Flick’s facet will probably be within the final 4 of the Champions League, the place their opponent will probably be Inter Milan or Bayern Munich – they play the second leg of their quarter-final on Wednesday.