Uefa Champions League quarter-finals: Barcelona 2-0 PSG - Bayern Munich 6-1 Porto - as it happened
Full time: Barcelona (5) 2-0 (1) Paris Saint Germain
Full time: Bayern Munich (7) 6-1 (4) FC Porto
All over in tonight's two quarter-final tie but in fairness you could have said that at half time tonight. Two Neymar goals for Barcelona helped see off the challenge of a woeful Paris Saint Germain while in Germany, Bayern Munich blew away 10-man FC Porto with five first half goals before another followed in the second to cap a 6-1 win. Both go into Friday's last four draw as main contenders for the title.
Well that is all we have time for on this Champions League night. We'll be back with full coverage over the other quarter-final ties tomorrow but until then goodbye.
It's a variation on fantasy football wherever you look tonight, whether it been at Bayern Munich or Barcelona. Both teams are trying to walk the ball in as we enter the final quarter of our two matches. Lionel Messi has been surprisingly quiet tonight, I wonder if he might make a contribution before the night is out.
Hard to get that excited about what remains in the games in Bavaria and Barcelona with both games resembling matches which have little in the way of legs to them, despite over half an hour in each tie remaining. Verratti should have given PSG a glimmer of hope but he drives wide from 20 yards while Bayern come close to a sixth as Xabi Alonso curls a free-kick over the bar.
What a first in the Champions League. Bayern Munich have gone from quarter-finals failures to trophy contenders in the space of 45 minutes with five, yes five, first half goals against FC Porto to turn the tie on its head. Robert Lewandowski has two, Thiago Alcantara, Jerome Boateng and the mercurial Thomas Muller have the others while the Portuguese club have offered nothing and are in the process of being dumped out of the competition in emphatic fashion.
At the Nou Camp it has been slightly more routine for Barcelona who have netted twice in the first half through Brazilian Neymar while PSG have wilted under the pressure of creating Champions League history. One way traffic in both of our quarter-final ties.
Goal: Bayern Munich (6) 5-0 (3) FC Porto (Robert Lewandowski)
You'll do well to find a more dominant performance from a team this season. Bayern have been awesome and they take their chance to pile on the misery when Mulller crosses for Lewandowski, who takes one touches to control, creates some space and hammers into the corner. They have blown away Porto in less than 45 minutes.
Goal: Bayern Munich (5) 4-0 (3) FC Porto (Thomas Muller)
When it is your night, its your night. Bayern make it four and we've barely got 36 minutes on the clock. Thiago feeds Muller who shoots goalwards, with his effort defelcted off Bruno Martins Indi and wrong-footing Fabiano. Start to etch Bayern onto your Champions League wall charts (if one actually exists).
Goal: Barcelona (5) 2-0 (1) Paris Saint Germain (Neymar)
Very, very easy for Barcelona and they put the tie beyond any doubt with a second goal 11 minutes before the break. Dani Alves is allowed to cut onto his left foot, swing a cross in towards Neymar who had drifted in between Gregory van der Wiel and David Luiz and heads unmarked into the corner.
Goal: Bayern Munich (4) 3-0 (2) FC Porto (Robert Lewandowski)
Goodnight Porto. A third goal inside 27 minutes for Bayern who are strolling as things stand into the semi-final. Lahm's cross is helping across by Muller and Lewandowski nods a powerful header beyond Fabiano. The German champions look in the mood tonight and Porto have no answer.
Goal: Bayern Munich (2) 1-0 (3) FC Porto (Thiago Alcantara)
The pressure finally tells in Bavaria and it's game on. Gotze lays the ball back to Bernat and his cross picks out Alcantara, who scores his second Champions League goal in as many games to give Bayern a glimmer of hope of getting through this tie. They need one more unanswered goal to reach the last four.
Goal: Barcelona (4) 1-0 (1) Paris Saint Germain (Neymar)
PSG still need three goals tonight but Barcelona are already into their stride and lead on the night thanks to a sumptuous goal. Iniesta beats three players and plays an inch-perfect pass to Neymar on the run, who beats David Luiz, rounds Sirigu and finds the empty net.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic returns to the Nou Camp once again with PSG and without a Champions League winners medal to his name, you wonder how many more chances the Swede has to claim the continent's biggest prize. His efforts tonight might end up being in vein, with his form club holding all the aces after the first leg.
So what can we expect tonight from these two games. Well Barcelona will want to enhance their increasingly prominent status as tournament favourites with another win, while PSG and the returning Zlatan Ibrahimovic are surely only playing for pride. Laurent Blanc's side strive to be in these big matches more and more but they could be a bit part at the Nou Camp. In the other tie, Bayern will hope to put behind them a reckless performance in Portugal and overturn a 3-1 defeat from the first leg but face the competition's surprise package in FC Porto who were unfortunate to only get three goals in the first leg.
Teams:
Barcelona v Paris Saint Germain
Barcelona: Ter Stegen, Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Alba, Busquets, Rakitic, Iniesta, Suárez, Messi, Neymar
Paris Saint Germain: Sirigu, Marquinhos, Maxwell, Van der Wiel, David Luiz, Cabaye, Matuidi, Verratti, Pastore, Cavani, Ibrahimovic
Bayern Munich v FC Porto
Bayern Munich: Neuer, Alonso, Thiago, Lewandowski, Rafinha, Boateng, Bernat, Götze, Lahm, Müller, Badstuber
FC Porto: Fabiano, Reyes, Maicon, Marcano, Martins Indi, Herrera, Casemiro, Oliver Torres, Quaresma, Brahimi, Jackson
Eight will become four in the Champions League this week as we reach the climax to the second knock-out round in Europe's elite club competition. On paper at least, tonight should be routine for both of our first leg leaders. PSG must become the first club in history to overturn a two-goal deficit from the home leg and prevail against treble-chasing Barcelona while in Bavaria Bayern Munich attempt to overturn the same scoreline on home turf against plucky Porto. We could either have two dud matches or some historic moments on this Champions league night. I wouldn't bet against the latter. Team news from across Europe on the way.
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