Barcelona reserved its place in the semifinals of the Champions League, despite falling to the 3-1 defeat against Borussia Dortmund in the second half of its tie in the quarterfinals.
The Blaugrana were Emphatic winners 4-0 During the first round and the 5-3 in total, but its German opponents sweated on Tuesday evening, while Serhou Guirassy scored a hat-trick in Dortmund’s victory at night.
Barcelona almost kept its global advantage in the closing stages and has won a clash with Inter or Bayern Munich in the Final Four.
As the game was deployed
Few offered Dortmund Any hope of making a historic comeback, but this feeling was not shared by the multitude of Iduna Park of the Ruucous signal. The deafening volume inside the stadium fed a wave of early pressure from the hosts, which deserved to reduce BarcelonaThe added advantage of the eleventh minute, while Guirassy became the place.
Pascal Gross was the fallen man in the penalty area by the frame that was in Wojciech Szczesny and the General of the Migge Camp, who lost his way to the suspension, gave Barcelona another alert sign when he fired beyond the Polish goalkeeper five minutes later. Fortunately for the visitors, the flag out of place denied BVB for a second.
Barcelona was able to take the sting from the performances at the half -hour mark, but struggled to remove attacking threats from Dortmund. The yellow and black t -shirts continued to rampatize the rear of the Catalans, who relieved to enter the half after they had been awarded once after losing the efforts of Maximilian Beier and Karim Adeyemi.
But Barcelona’s defense was not so lucky only four minutes after the restart, as Dortmund closed the gap. Guirassy, who twice marked the battle of the league phase between the teams, was again the thorn next to him, heading to Ramy Bensebaini’s house to disturb the visitors.
BEENSEBAINI was the architect of the second Vilà de Dortmund, but quickly turned, while restoring the aggregate advantage of three goals from Barcelona. The defender dragged the cross near Fermin Lopez on his own network, as the hopes of a surprising comeback began to evaporate.
Guirassy reigned the belief within the signal Iduna Park, as it benefited from a terrible authorization from Ronald Araujo to shoot beyond Szczesny and claim the game’s ball, but Dortmund could not gather any goals on the dying embers despite its relentless pressure, as Barcelona reached its place in the next round.
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It cannot be denied that Tuesday’s performance was not the best in Barcelona this season. They were disabled during the first half, while the decibels were raised inside the Iduna del Signal Park and showed signs of nerves during the second period. It was far from a vintage show, as they offered Dortmund more than a shin of hope.
Hansi Flick has been far from being impressed by what he witnessed on his side, whose complacency was almost expensive. While Dortmund remained at a distance of completing an impressive comeback, supporters back to Barcelona will have been biting their nails furiously in the closing stages of what was to be a routine evening.
Inter or Bayern in the next round will be exploited by such a lack of performance.
Barcelona’s attacking superiority is what decided on the first section, but Dortmund could still cause defensive problems for the Barça player at Olimpic Stadium Lluis Companys. Guirassy was guilty of wasting several excellent openings that could have changed the tie skin but was not so missed on Tuesday
The teammates regularly supplied the Dortmund striker, as the hosts repeatedly beat the trap out of the Barcelona line. The midfielder went from Gross was not checked, while Beier and Adeyemi’s tastes used their speed to cause chaos when Niko Kovac’s side adopted a direct approach.
Individual mistakes did not help: Szczesny gave Dortmund his first and Araujo delivered his third, but not, for the first time this season, the aggressive defensive line of Barcelona was punished. They will find them difficult to win the Champions League, leaving such a huge space behind and Flick may have to change in the semis.
Barcelona has been characterized by its impressive attacking exhibitions this season, but its fearsome Triomvirat has rarely been subjected to Dortmund.
Raphinha, Lamine Yamal and Robert Lewandowski combined only two shots on Tuesday, registering a total of 0.07 – and were anonymous during a disappointing performance in Barcelona.
They lacked their usual exchange and energy in the final third, playing with an average interest in what happened around them. There was a lot of space to unleash their attacker potential as Dortmund pressed and bothered, but they did not find their foot in a hard environment.
Of course, this was only a unique evening of sub-stew samples of the Barcelona attacking unit, but they cannot afford to disappear as they did in Germany for the rest of their champions league campaign.
