Paris Saint-Germain held its nerve to beat Liverpool 4-1 in penalties and reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday after their equality ended only once on Agragate, while Bayern Munich saw Bayer Leverkusen to fill a 5-0 victory against both legs.
Lamine Yamal and Raphinha dismissed Barcelona in the next round while the Catalans beat Benfica 3-1, and Inter Milan reserved a last meeting with Bayern by seeing Feyenoord 2-1.
In Anfield, Ousmane Dembele scored the only goal of the night while PSG rebounded by the late winner of Liverpool last week to force the link at the time and penalties.
Maginated for his weak attempt to safeguard at the Parc des Princes de la strike de Harvey Elliott, the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma produced two excellent stops in the penalty shootout to send the French champions to the last eight.
Donnarumma first plunged to his left to deny Darwin Nunez, before descending on the other side to deny Curtis Jones, his teammates disposing of all their penalties.
“It was a great performance. We really deserve to go through both legs, from top to bottom,” PSG Captain Marquinhos told Canal Plus.
The hosts dominated the opening exchanges but could not ensure that their chances count, a bit like PSG in the return match last week.
Dembele expelled the 12th minute after reacting Ibrahima Konate’s attempt to release a PSG counteratta in the Liverpool penalty box.
Jarell Quansah hit the post with a header in the second half, but PSG held firm under pressure from Liverpool to claim the second floor 1-0.
The tie inevitably rumbled towards the sanctions and after the heroism of Donnarumma, the Desire Doue criticized the decisive penalty to trigger wild celebrations in the end of the visitors.
“It was the best football match in which I was never involved,” Arne Slot told Amazon Prime.
“It was an incredible performance, especially if you compare it with last week. We created chances and then we were 1-0. We lacked luck after last week.”
PSG will play Aston Villa or Club Brugge in the next step.
Harry Kane inspired Bayern in a 2-0 victory at the home of the German Rivaux Leverkusen.
The captain of England scored and helped to the Bayarena, adding to his two goals of the complete 3-0 victory in the first leg in Munich.
“From the first minute, we did not want to be a team that fell and tried to defend the advance,” Kane told Amazon Prime.
“In the second half, we knew that they had to go out and try something and we punished them.”
With the matchless match at halftime, Bayer pushed to try to get in the draw in the last 45 minutes.
But it was Kane who typed in a cross of Joshua Kimmich Lofted in the 52nd minute to kill the tie.
Alphonso Davies has a rout on both legs with 19 minutes to play as he returned to his home a chipped pass from Kane.
“We have not lost equality today,” said Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso. “We have made things too difficult for ourselves in the return leg.”
Already a goal on the property according to the first leg, a raphinha splint and a Yamal Wonder-Goal obtained the Barca a global victory 4-1 Tuesday.
The Hansi Flick team will face Borussia Dortmund or Lille in the quarter -final while they are going to win the competition for the first time since 2015.
“We are candidates to win everything,” Raphinha told Movistar, with the club looking for a potential triple.
The feeling in adolescents Yamal created the opener over 11 minutes with a magic race before his teased shot perfectly chooses Raphinha while the ghostly Brazilian with the distant post.
Nicolas Otamendi instantly fell for Benfica when he forced a head in front of Wojciech Szczesny in the 13th minute.
Yamal restored the two -goals’s two -goals from the local team 14 minutes later, cutting out of the right flank and archting an unstoppable effort in the most distant corner.
Raphinha then put the tie in bed three minutes before the interval with a puffy finish on left foot after an excellent work of Alejandro Balde.
The accumulation of the match at the Olympic stadium was overshadowed by the sudden death last Saturday of the Doctor of the Barcelona club, Carles Minarro, and the players observed a silence in his honor before kick -off.
“We have won for us and Carles is always with us … He always has a place (here),” said Flick.
The Italian Inter champions have also progressed in the last 16 with a 4-1 global victory.
The strikes of Marcus Thuram and Hakan Calhanoglu, on each side of a consolation of Feyenoord marked by Jakub Moder, gave them a 2-1 victory in San Siro.
The fierce strike of the eighth minute of Thuram put the Nerazzurri in a 3-0 commander’s aggregate advance, before Moderne and Calhanoglu marked the place shortly before and after the interval.
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