LIVE: Barcelona vs Paris Saint-Germain LIVE STREAM – Champions League quart
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Brazilian forward Raphinha scored twice to help Barcelona secure a 3-2 win at Paris Saint-Germain in their Champions League quarter-final first leg on Wednesday.
Barcelona, five-times European champions, dominated proceedings early on against the French side still looking for a first Champions League crown and led through a Raphinha strike in the 37th minute.
However, PSG piled on the pressure after the break and levelled in the 48th minute through a stunning Ousmane Dembele strike into the top corner before going ahead when Vitinha stroked the ball in two minutes later.
But Raphinha's deft volley in the 62nd minute brought the match level again, before Andreas Christensen headed in from a corner 13 minutes from time to give the Spanish side a narrow advantage going into next week's second leg.
Antoine Griezmann may not have been on the scoresheet for Atletico Madrid in his side’s 2-1 first-leg win against Borussia Dortmund, but the forward did collect the Player of the Match award.
Will the French international be able to help the Spaniards seal the deal in Germany?
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2m ago (18:53 GMT)
Stat attack – Barcelona
Barcelona, who are five-time winners of the competition, have only made it beyond the Champions League quarterfinals in two of the last seven attempts.
Indeed, it’s been five years since they last reached the semifinals, having overcome Manchester United in the last eight.
The Catalan club have only been defeated at home once in 17 Champions League quarterfinals, when they have been played over two legs, winning 14 of those.
Juventus are the only side to have come out victorious, but it did require extra time to secure the 2-1 win 21 years ago.
Barcelona are currently on a six-game winning streak and are unbeaten in 13 winning 10 of those.
6m ago (18:50 GMT)
Paris Saint-Germain ‘motivating each other’ before Barcelona match
PSG welcome the return of Morocco full-back Achraf Hakimi, who missed the first leg due to suspension.
He said PSG were fired up to beat Barca and establish a winning culture and shared his manager’s confidence they could fight back against the five-times Champions League winners.
“We’re coming here to bring victory back to Paris,” Hakimi told a news conference on Monday.
“We’re coming with a lot of desire, the desire to change what happened in the first leg. We’re coming to win.
“We’ve been talking to each other, we’ve been motivating each other. We want to stick together and win.”
9m ago (18:47 GMT)
Mbappe racks up the Paris Saint-Germain stats
Kylian Mbappe may be leaving PSG later this year, with Real Madrid heavily speculated to be his final destination, but the stats continue to fall for the forward.
The Frenchman will make his 302nd appearance for the Paris-based club if he features in Barcelona.
That will take him clear of Edison Cavani as the 10th-most-capped player for PSG.
10m ago (18:46 GMT)
Last up for Paris Saint-Germain
The last outing for PSG was the first-leg defeat by Barcelona in Paris.
Prior to that in Ligue 1, the French table-toppers shared a 1-1 home draw with Claremont.
Their next fixture is against Lyon, who are an unusually low seventh in the league, on Sunday.
11m ago (18:44 GMT)
Last up for Barcelona
Barcelona beat Cadiz 1-0 in La Liga in their last outing.
Joao Felix’s first-half strike was enough to settle the tie.
18m ago (18:38 GMT)
Paris Saint-Germain will ‘turn the score around’ against Barcelona
Paris St Germain will qualify for the Champions League last four by recovering from last week’s 3-2 home defeat by Barcelona in their quarterfinal first leg, according to the French club’s boss Luis Enrique.
The Spaniard, who led Barca to the treble in 2015, was confident PSG could overcome what he thought was an unfair loss and continue their quest for a first Champions League crown.
“We are firmly convinced that we will turn the score around,” Enrique said.
“The first match was hard fought by both teams but the result did not reflect what we deserved. The 3-2 scoreline means we have to go for the game.”