Disappointment despite everything.
While they did not expect much for this round of 16 return after the huge slap of the first leg, the Catalans could not help but believe in it on Wednesday night when they saw Barça club the PSG in the first period.
The multiple opportunities of Koeman's men gave rise to the crazy hope of a new comeback, until the penalty missed by Lionel Messi just before the break.
"With honor", jointly headline this Thursday the Catalan newspapers
Mundo Deportivo
and
Sport
, which underline "the pride" shown by the players after the fiasco at Camp Nou.
“Barça fall with pride.
He deserved to win at the Parc des Princes ", asserts the
Mundo Deportivo
, which lists these small and big things which prevented the Catalans from reversing the situation:" Two shots on the crossbar, the Parisian hero Keylor Navas, an error of Messi on the penalty and a terrible lack of efficiency.
"
"Barcelona were by far the best team", supports
Sport
, which also devotes an article to what represents, according to the sports daily, a refereeing error.
"The reason why Messi's penalty should have been withdrawn".
“If the position of Keylor [Navas] is correct, that of Verratti is not, points out the daily.
He entered the arc of the area before Messi shot.
The rule says that this is a reason to take the penalty again.
Barça was therefore wronged, Messi should have had a second chance.
"
Lenglet not spared
On this point, even the Madrid press is doing it.
Thus, in a column for
As
, the former referee Iturralde González does not hesitate to speak of "one of the greatest failures of the VAR" on this streak.
“In addition, it is him [Verratti] who arrives first on the rejected ball to release it for a corner,” observes González.
By the way, we do not remember having heard them when half of the players (Barcelona and Parisians combined) had entered the box long before the strikes of Messi and Neymar in the 6-1 of 2017. The VAR was not yet in. force, but the rule does.
Finally,
Marca
, who highlights on his front page the great match of the former Real goalkeeper Keylor Navas, remarks that "Barça has fallen to his feet".
But cannot help but consider him "victim of an error, another one, of Lenglet".
The Frenchman, who conceded the penalty converted by Mbappé when Barcelona had made a very good start, is not spared this morning.
It is not the first time this season that it cuts the legs of its partners by putting itself at the fault in its surface.
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