Uefa Champions League as it happened: Barcelona 1-0 Manchester City - Borussia Dortmund 0-3 Juventus
Full time: Barcelona (3) 1-0 (1) Manchester City
Full time: Borussia Dortmund (1) 0-3 (5) Juventus
Full time in both games tonight. Barcelona go through after a single goal victory given to them by Ivan Rakitic's goal. Sergio Aguero's penalty miss saw City's hopes dwindle. Juventus will join them in the last eight after thrashing Dortmund 5-1 over two legs, with Carlos Tevez getting two on the night in the 3-0 win in Germany.
Well that is all we have time for on this Champions League night. We're back with all the action on a packed weekend of football at home and on the continent. Until then goodbye.
City are living and breathing in this tie and they should be level on the night. Navas gets the wrong side of Alba but his cut back is missed and when Kolarov shoots goalwards, Milner can't turn it in from the rebound. On the counter, Hart gets down to deny Messi when a goal seemed certain. That is the risk they are taking now.
Goals in both of our last 16 second legs which have the ties all but secure. Barcelona lead against Manchester City through Ivan Rakitic's goal while Juventus have one foot in the last eight after Carlos Tevez's early away goal. Premier League representation is 45 minutes away from being reduced to zero.
Pellegrini said his side would stand no chance against sides like City if they continued to have players sent off, having had a man dismissed in each of the three previous meetings with Barca, and they have not begun in a manner which suggests they could buck that trend. Fernandinho and Kolarov have already been cautioned and the odds on 11-men finishing the game are slowly rising.
Only six sides have done what Manchester City must do tonight and overcome losing the first leg at home to prevail in a two-legged Champions League tie. Only AC Milan, Ajax, Nottingham Forest, Steaua Bucharest, Ajax again and Inter Milan have gone through after losing the first leg on their own patch but what chances of Manchester City joining that list? Well, having been swept aside three weeks ago at the Etihad Stadium, lost to relegation contenders Burnley at the weekend and produced an insipid campaign thus far City could easily be blown away tonight.
Teams:
Barcelona v Manchester City
Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Alba, Pique, Mathieu, Alves, Mascherano, Iniesta, Rakitic, Messi , Suarez, Neymar.
Manchester City: Hart, Sagna, Kompany, Demichelis, Kolarov, Nasri, Fernandinho, Toure, Milner, Silva, Aguero
Juventus v Borussia Dortmund
Juventus: Buffon, Lichtsteiner, Bonucci, Chiellini, Evra, Vidal, Marchisio, Pogba, Pereyra, Tevez, Morata.
Borussia Dortmund: Weidenfeller, Subotic, Hummels, Papastathopoulos, Schmelzer, Bender, Gundogan, Reus, Kampl, Mkhitaryan, Aubameyang.
Three down, one to go? Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool have all been unceremoniously dumped out of this season's Champions League and with the reputation of English clubs in Europe, not least their coefficient ranking, hanging by a thread Manchester City are charged with rebuilding it. Facing them is a Barcelona team who have won their last five matches and history, with only a handful of teams having ever overturned a deficit from losing the first leg at home. A huge mountain to climb for the Premier League champions and Manuel Pellegrini.
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