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Mbappé and Messi chatting during the 2021 PSG-Barça

BARÇA FACED PSG IN 2017 AND 2021

A historic feat and a painful hat-trick by Mbappé: The latest precedents for Barça with PSG

Published:15/03/2024 - 17:45h

Updated:16/03/2024 - 18:26h

FC Barcelona returns to face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League with two immediate bittersweet memories: From a historic comeback to a humiliation with the mark of Kylian Mbappé

Calendar of FC Barcelona

The FC Barcelona has not had 'luck' in the draw of the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Although from the club are very optimistic and do not have fear, the Paris Saint-Germain is a rival to fear and has to the one who is, probably, the best player of the world. The culés have very bad memories of a Kylian Mbappé that, in his only visit to the City Condal, shattered to the blaugrana with a painful 'hat-trick' that did useless the attempt of reaction in the Park of the Princes.

It was in the last Champions League of Leo Messi in the Barça and one of the so many nights 'dark' of the Barcelona picture in the last seasons. The Parisians, in that then, had hired to Mauritius Pochettino a month and half before the eliminatory and did not arrive like favourite. The culés advanced before the half hour, with a goal of penalti of 'The Flea', but shortly after arrived the 'shatter' of the of Bondy, that, a 'hat-trick', condemned to the Catalans. Moise Kean Contributed a goal to expand the advantage of the Frenchmen.

In the turn, in Paris, the then trained by Ronald Koeman stepped advance and looked for the traced back, but remained in the attempt. Mbappé, again, opened the marker in the Park of the Princes and shortly after equalised it Messi with a golazo from long distance that invited to believe in a possible gesta historical, as the one of some years before,p ero remained to half gas and returned to Barcelona with the feeling that they had competed, but did not reach them.

The gesta historical of the Barça in the Camp Nou

It is the most recent memory that have the culés, but no the only. And it is that it does not be necessary to overlook the traced back historical that had signed in the season 2016/2017, in eighth of final. In the capital of France, with Unai Emery in the bench, the PSG had shattered to the Catalans with an exhibition of Ángel Gave María, that signed a doublet, in addition to goals of Julian Draxler and Edinson Cavani. The Barça signed a 'KO' with a 4-0 that seemed definite... But in the Camp Nou the Barcelona signed the traced back more remembered in the Champions League.

And it is that, with the result against, the then trained by Luis Enrique gave turn to the marker with a historical performance in which Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suárez were fundamental. The Brazilian annotated two targets and gave an aistencia. Sergi Roberto 'raised' to all the Camp Nou with the goal of the traced back in the 90+5', in a crash in which, in spite of the historical feat, also is remembered by a series of controversial referee's decisions. For example, there were catchwords by penaltis no sanctioned in favour of the PSG and by a hand of Mascherano in the area that was not signalled with the maximum penalty.