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Carried by a triplet of Guirassy, Borussia Dortmund dropped the Catalans for the first time this year (3-1). They will still see the semi-finals where they could face Inter Milan or Bayern Munich.
Easy winner winner (4-0), Barcelona made a big fright by losing 3 to 1 in Dortmund, author of an unfinished rise with a hat-trick of Serhou Guirassy (5-3 for Barça in cumul), in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
After six years of absence, Barcelona therefore finds the last square in the Queen competition of European football. For a place in the final at the Allianz Arena in Munich on May 31, ten years after the last in 2015 (a coronation in Berlin against Juventus), the men of Hansi Flick will face Inter Milan or Bayern Munich, who compete on Wednesday evening in San Siro, in an indecisive quarter-final (2-1 for the Nerazzurri in the first leg in Bavaria).
The first leg will take place in Spain, at the Olympic stadium of Montjuic on the heights of Barcelona on April 29 and 30, while the return will be competed in San Siro or at Allianz Arena on May 6 or 7.
Fortunately, the teammates of Ronald Araujo, evening captain for Barça, had the good idea to win widely a week ago in their stadium, because as during the duel at the Westfalenstadion between the two teams at the time of the group phase in December (Barcelona victory 3-2 at the end of the suspense), Dortmund made the blaugrana, of the second period, then at the start of the last quarter of an hour.
Forced to a feat – go up a gap of four goals after the first leg – which only FC Barcelona managed to achieve in 2017 against Paris SG, Borussia launched its operation in the best way with a very high pressing on the goal of Barcelona, rewarded after less than ten minutes of play.
Guirassy top scorer
Launched in the penalty area and covered by the French right side Jules Koundé, Pascal Gross was broke in the penalty area by the Polish goalkeeper of Barça Wojciech Szczesny. The referee did not hesitate to designate the penalty, which Serhou Guirassy transformed under a transverse bar, in a shot halfway between the flat of the foot and the panenka.
Smruted for almost half an hour, Barça timidly regained control of the game, thanks to its offensive trident Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha, however struggling to create frank opportunities for 90 minutes. In defense, they played to be afraid, with a high placement which often put the Dortmund players in the offside position, even if it was sometimes very limited.
At the start of the second period, Szczesny carried out a double parade in front of Karim Adeyemi and Pascal Gross, but could not do anything on the next corner. Rami Bensebaini took over the second post and stored on Guirassy who went there from his double in the 49th minute.
If Bensebaini, hitherto impeccable, cheated on his own goalkeeper five minutes later, Guirassy scored his first triple in the Champions League in the 76th minute, after a superb work by Julien Duranville on the right side. He then resumed the head of the scorer ranking with 13 achievements, ahead of Raphinha (12) and Lewandowski (11), and gave hope to the 81,365 spectators of the Westfalenstadion, at the foot of the yellow wall, huge standing stand with 25,000 places. In vain.
Barça is no longer undefeated in 2025, a recall bite before the decisive weeks of the season, and a quintuplely still possible.
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