The greatest comeback in Champions league history happened today as Barcelona came back from 4-0 deficit to beat PSG 6-1 at Camp Nu.
Barcelona becomes the first team to perform this feat as they knocked out Paris St-Germain to reach the quarter-finals for the 10th successive season.
The Spanish champions were 5-3 down on aggregate in the 88th minute, but Neymar's free-kick and penalty followed by Sergi Roberto's 95th-minute winner sealed victory.
Barcelona had led 2-0 at the break courtesy of Luis Suarez's header after just three minutes and Layvin Kurzawa's own goal.
Neymar then fell over Thomas Meunier in the box and Lionel Messi converted the penalty just four minutes into the second half.
Edinson Cavani lashed home for PSG on 61 minutes as the tie looked to be over for Barcelona, but they obviously had not read the script.
Neymar curled a sumptuous free-kick into the top corner before Suarez won a penalty and gave it to the Brazilian to convert.
Substitute Roberto then netted his first goal of the season in one of the greatest Champions League ties of all time.
Logic dictated that Barcelona would not be able to comeback from such a brutal deficit, but the impossible being made reality is what keeps us coming back to football time and time again.
In the build-up Luis Enrique insisted that if PSG could score four against his team in Paris then Barcelona could hit them for six at the Camp Nou. That a comeback was even thinkable is incredible in itself.
And Barcelona’s self-belief tripled when Suarez headed home after just three minutes. They racked up the pressure and the chances, pelting Kevin Trapp’s goal.
The crucial second came five minutes before half-time, with Messi adding the third five minutes after it.
Neymar got the fourth late on, but by then Cavani had intervened, with his strike effectively killing the game, because Barcelona needed six thanks to the away goals rule.
It didn’t stop this from being an incredible night of football.
The Nou Camp erupts, What a finish.
Goals in the 88th, 91st and 95th minute saw Barcelona complete a comeback that looked dead and buried 10 minutes ago.
The Nou Camp has erupted as Luis Enrique looks delighted. Did he make his decision to go too early?
The greatest Champions League comeback ever.
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