Leave it up to FC Barcelona to pull off the most remarkable comeback in UEFA Champions League history.
Barcelona defeated Paris Saint-Germain 6-1 on Wednesday at the Camp Nou in a game that will go down in the annals of soccer history. The result overturned the four-goal lead PSG built Feb. 14 and catapulted Barcelona into the Champions League quarterfinals.
Sergi Roberto scored this fateful goal five minutes into added time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_z8TAG73U
Roberto’s goal was the third goal Barcelona scored in the final seven minutes of the game. Neymar converted a free kick in the 88th minute and a penalty kick in the 90th minute to set the stage for Roberto.
Barcelona previously had stormed to a three-goal lead on Luis Suarez (third minute), Layvin Kurzawa (40th-minute own goal) and Lionel Messi’s (50th minute) heroics.
But the soccer world assumed Edinson Cavani had killed Barcelona’s comeback hopes with his 62nd-minute goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSV1V5ssrg
The message was lost on Barcelona’s and PSG’s players, who featured in perhaps the most thrilling and unlikely comeback in top-level soccer history.
1 – Barcelona are the first side in Champions League and European Cup history to overturn a first-leg 4-goal deficit. Mesmeric.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) March 8, 2017
Thumbnail photo via YouTube/LaLiga
