A 'KO' to believe in the team! Barça did not stop fighting with 10 and came close to overtime

The FC Barcelona sacked of the UEFA Champions League with a hard goleada home in front of Paris Saint-Germain (1-4). The unfair expulsion of Ronald Araújo conditioned the party from the half hour of game, but in spite of the numerical inferiority the culés reacted in the complement and enjoyed of opportunities to try force the extention. This yes, with more pride that play and conscious of the minimum possibilities to resist in front of a PSG physically very upper.

The Barça brushed the lengthen with a late reaction in the last chamber of hour

After the 1-3 converted of penalti by Kylian Mbappé, the ones of Xavi Hernández created danger in the Parisian area with several clear arrivals. The entry of Ferran Torres gave oxygen to a centre of the field totally fusilado and so much Raphinha like Robert Lewandowski had two very clear occasions 73' and 78', the first with a shot from the frontal of the area of the Pole that demanded to Donnarumma.

In fact, Raphinha was near to take advantage of the rebound to convert, but arrived a second afternoon. Five minutes afterwards, the '11' had another opportunity inmejorable with a shot crossed of right that brushed the stick. After the income of Fermín López and Joao Félix, the culés dumped to by the goal that equalised the eliminatory, but went the PSG the one who nailed the puntilla in the 89', again by means of Mbappé.

Xavi recognised the pride of the Barça playing with ten

After the party, Xavi recognised in 'Movistar' the effort of his players to try go to by the goal that equalised the eliminatory in the last half hour. "We have had them clear to put us in the eliminatory, but with ten footballers is very complicated. It is a penalty that the work of a season by a decision finish here", said the egarense doing reference to the expulsion of Araújo.

Definitely, the decision of the Romanian Istvan Kovacs to expel to the 'charrúa' changed completely a party that the culés had controlled, further of the control of Parisian balloon. The ones of Luis Enrique did not attain to translate the possession in clear arrivals, unlike a Barça that turned into his first clear occasion by means of Raphinha. Afterwards, in the complement, were missing legs and puntería to go to by the heroic.