Barcelona Reach Champions League Semis Despite Defeat At Dortmund

Barca will 'get back on track' after Dortmund scare

Coach Hansi Flick said Barcelona deserved to reach the semi-finals despite a 3-1 loss in the second leg at Borussia Dortmund Barcelona's 4-0 win at home in the first leg left Dortmund needing a miracle to reach the last four for the second straight season. The Germans made the visitors sweat, with...

Barcelona reaches first Champions League semifinal in six years, PSG advances in pursuit of first title

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — Barcelona reached the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time in six years, despite being outplayed and comfortably beaten 3-1 by Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday. A commanding 4-0 victory at home had put Barça in the driving seat against Dortmund in their quarterfinal tie last week, but Serhou Guirassy’s hat-trick in the second leg piled pressure onto the Spanish giant. The Guinean international cut into …

Why can't we replicate Champions League form in Bundesliga, Dortmund wonder

BERLIN :Borussia Dortmund's Champions League quarter-final exit despite an impressive 3-1 win over favourites Barcelona on Tuesday only highlighted the Ruhr valley club's opposing fates in Europe and the Bundesliga this season. While Dortmund failed to overturn a 4-0 first leg deficit, they went 2-0 up, ig

The 0:4 from the beginning was also no longer catch up for an exciting BVB. Barcelona with coach Hansi Flick is now in the semi-finals, but before that it is relegated by the local press.

FC Barcelona is in the semi-finals of the Champions League, but after the 1:3 defeat in the backlash in Dortmund it has to be a tough criticism. Spain's press wonders about the Catalans' weak performance. "Barca on the brink of a tragedy," writes the "Marca. And asks: "Where was Europe's most deadly trident?" While Dortmund played big, Lamine Yamal, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski, all of whom played a great season, could not show up. Lob, on th…

Borussia Dortmund was eliminated in the quarter-finals in the Football Champions League. BVB won the return match against FC Barcelona in the evening with 3:1. However, since the Spaniards had chosen the starting match in their own stadium with 4:0, the victory of the Dortmunders in front of their own audience was no longer enough.