Paris (AFP)

In the Champions League, no team has qualified away after a defeat by three goals in the first leg.

But other "remonstrances" can inspire FC Barcelona, ​​which finds Paris SG on Wednesday in the round of 16, after a nightmarish first round (4-1 defeat).

- The most incredible -

Barcelona-PSG (0-4, 6-1), in 2017

"Unqualifiable", headlines the daily L'Equipe after this rout on March 8, 2017. Paris SG has just gone down in history as the only club to date to have been eliminated from the Champions League after winning by four gap goals in the first leg.

Authors of a home demonstration at the Parc des Princes, Unai Emery's men are totally inhibited by the challenge and the Barcelona fervor on the return.

Barça opened the scoring in the 3rd minute and despite an away goal scored by Edinson Cavani, the Parisians ended up leaving the competition with their heads down, after conceding three goals in the last seven minutes of the match (6-1 ).

Including the last, signed Sergi Roberto, which tilts the Camp Nou into ecstasy.

- The most unbalanced -

AS Roma-Barcelona (1-4, 3-0), in 2018

It was Francesco Totti who, during the draw for the quarter-finals, designates Barcelona as opponent of his Roma and the poster appears very unbalanced.

Freshly retired, he admits in the process that "it could have been better" ... "We are going to face one of the biggest teams in Europe".

The first leg proves him right, since Barça scores four goals at home, certainly with a lot of success.

But the return is exceptional: the Roman club, led by Edin Dzeko, corrects a Barcelona team, perhaps too sufficient.

In the 82nd, Kostas Manolas sealed the unthinkable with his head.

- The most stunning -

Liverpool-Barcelona (0-3, 4-0) in 2019

Sensational.

Fourteen years after overthrowing AC Milan in the final (3-3, 3-2 tab), Liverpool achieves an authentic feat by eliminating FC Barcelona to afford a second C1 final in a row.

The Blaugranas thought they had done the hard part after offering the first leg (3-0).

But Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum wrote for the Reds one of the best stories of the Champions League after a heroic performance at Anfield, prior to their coronation in the final in Madrid a few days later.

- The cruelest -

PSG-Manchester United (2-0, 1-3) in 2019

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had warned: in C1, "the results are sometimes strange".

It was necessary to believe in the "strange" forces to hope for a Mancunian exploit: with a dozen injured players and Paul Pogba suspended, the "Red Devils" had nothing demonic in going to Paris, which had dominated the first leg ( 2-0) without Neymar, injured.

But now, Romelu Lukaku takes advantage of two errors by Thilo Kehrer and Gianluigi Buffon, Kylian Mbappé is unrecognizable, the VAR awards a penalty at the very end of the match on a hand from Presnel Kimpembe and PSG loses 3-1.

He leaves the Champions League for the third time in a row in the round of 16.

A nightmare...

- The latest -

Ajax-Tottenham (1-0, 2-3) in 2019

The poster was already surprising, in the semi-finals of the competition.

But the outcome of the confrontation is even more so.

After a first leg controlled by the Ajacids (1-0), the return begins on the same tone and the Amstellodamois already lead 2-0 at the break.

While Ajax supporters are already seeing themselves in the final, a victim suddenly decides to turn into an executioner in the ranks of Tottenham.

Lucas Moura, at PSG during the Barcelona "remorada" of 2017, strikes twice before planting the fatal banderilla after six minutes of added time to give the team coached by Mauricio Pochettino the first final in its history.

- The most princely -

Monaco-Real Madrid (2-4, 3-1), in 2004

On the one hand, Zinédine Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul or Roberto Carlos.

On the other, Dado Prso, Ludovic Giuly or Jaroslav Plasil.

And at the end ... it's Monaco that goes to the semi-finals.

This season, the Principality's club signed one of the greatest exploits of French football by releasing the galactic Real Madrid.

All the more incredible as the Madrilenians won the first leg 4-2.

But on the return, Didier Deschamps 'men had a fiery match despite Raul's opening scoring: Giuly doubled, Fernando Morientes' goal ... Monaco would only stop its crazy course in the final, stumbling over Porto by José Mourinho.

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