HT: Roma dominate Barcelona

Roma executed a wearing miracle by overturning a 4-1 first leg defeat to beat Barcelona three-zero and attain the Champions League semi-final.

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The first leg ended 4-1 at Camp Nou, but didn’t replicate the two performances, because the Giallorossi scored two have aims and obtain been very unhappy with a few strong penalty shouts. Cengiz Beneath used to be edifying match for the bench serene and Diego Perotti out of motion, but Radja Nainggolan returned from damage and Patrik Schick used to be given his first Champions League appearance in a contemporary three-4-1-2 formation.

It took loyal six minutes to atomize the impasse, as Daniele De Rossi floated a Pirlo-esque ball over the high, which he controlled beautiful his beautiful foot and then fired in along with his left past the on-speeding Marc-Andre Ter Stegen. Dzeko’s away purpose had given Roma some hope in this quarter-final and he used to be heading within the accurate path all as soon as more right here for his sixth Champions League strike of the season.

Roma’s urgent game precipitated astronomical considerations for Ernesto Valverde and precipitated numerous corners, while Gerard Pique needed a determined kind out as Aleksandar Kolarov used to be pulling the trigger from eight yards.

Schick could doubtless serene’ve done better with a free header inches wide from Federico Fazio’s harmful, then he couldn’t secure a Nainggolan harmful-shot below management and forced one other final-ditch kind out.

Dzeko got his head to an Alessandro Florenzi harmful and Ter Stegen had to fingertip it over the crossbar.

Roma continued to pin Barcelona benefit into their very have penalty net site within the 2nd 1/2 and Dzeko tried to turn between two defenders, the attach he used to be each pulled down and tripped by Pique. The referee didn’t award a penalty until he used to be informed to full so by the aim-line legitimate. De Rossi stepped up and beat Ter Stegen to build up up for his have purpose within the principle leg and blow the quarter-final wide delivery.

Fazio nearly ruined all the pieces moments later with an awkward kind out and could doubtless serene’ve been given a 2nd yellow card.

The urgent from the hosts even forced Leo Messi into a bookable offence for stopping Aleksandar Kolarov’s counter-attack, while Ter Stegen smothered a Nainggolan volley and De Rossi’s glancing header flashed loyal wide of the far submit.

Cengiz Beneath made his comeback after numerous weeks out from damage to exchange tired Schick, while Messi fired straight at Alisson from a promising problem and the Turk curled off target.

Stephan El Shaarawy took over from Nainggolan for an all-out final siege and it fair about paid off, as on the seventy 9^th minute Florenzi’s harmful stumbled on the Shrimp Pharaoh on the benefit submit and at full stretch used to be denied by a nice Ter Stegen set up from point-blank differ.

It used to be a siege and Roma sooner or later got all those corners to pay off, as Cengiz Beneath stumbled on Kostas Manolas’ head on the come submit, transferring into entrance of Semedo to flick it on into the far bottom nook. The Olimpico went wild and incredibly each gamers who scored have aims at Camp Nou obtain been heading within the accurate path right here to turn the tie round entirely.

It used to be 4-4 on aggregate and Roma had the advantage on away aims. All straight away, Barcelona woke up and realised the discipline used to be dire, but poured ahead with out primarily troubling Alisson. The exact scare seen Alisson speed out to particular from Pique, who sprung the offside entice, and Dembele’s lob used to be over the empty acquire.

Roma three-zero Barcelona (4-4 agg, Roma have on away aims)

Dzeko 6 (R), De Rossi pen fifty eight (R), Manolas eighty two (R)

Roma: Alisson; Manolas, Fazio, Juan Jesus; Florenzi, Strootman, De Rossi, Kolarov; Nainggolan (El Shaarawy 76); Schick (Beneath seventy two), Dzeko

Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Semedo (Dembele eighty five), Pique, Umtiti, Jordi Alba; Sergi Roberto, Busquets (Paco Alcacer eighty five), Rakitic, Iniesta (Andre Gomes 81); Messi, Suarez

Ref: Turpin (FRA)

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