So much for the brittle bottlers of Paris. The Champions League’s great ostentatious pretenders, notorious for withering under pressure at the business end of the competition, staged a notable recovery here to take their place in the last four. Granted they did it against a ten-man Barcelona, after Ronald Araújo’s first-half red card, but by the time Kylian Mbappé had added his second goal of a dramatic night, Barcelona were overwhelmed.
A two-goal aggregate lead had been erased, Raphinha’s early strike giving Barcelona a boost that would be short-lived. The returning Ousmane Dembélé had a splendid night, equalising and winning a penalty converted by Mbappé. Vitinha scored Paris Saint-Germain’s second, Mbappé adding a late flourish.
Afterwards Dembélé, the winger who spent an injury-plagued six years
