Barca made history with record fightback in Camp Nou

It was a historic night for Barcelona as they overcame a 4-0 deficit heading into the second leg against Paris Saint-Germain by winning 6-1 on Wednesday. We saw it in the Super Bowl, what is possible in sport. “A team like this can do anything”. “It is a hard night to explain with words”, said Barca boss Luis Enrique, who will leave the club at the end of the season. With a tap of his right toes, the ball sailed past Kevin Trapp to seal the unlikely victory in injury time.

One man who will rightly take some blame will be manager Unai Emery.

While that goal probably made PSG fans sit up in their seats, it was the next that made them sweat.

The game will undoubtedly go down as one of the greatest in Champions League history, and rightly so. “Everybody is upset but now is not the time to talk about it”, he said.

Just when Barca looked down and out, trailing 5-3 on aggregate, Brazilian star Neymar restored hope when he curled home a sensational free-kick high into the top corner.

Five minutes into the second half and Lionel Messi scored from the penalty spot and the Camp Nou started to believe the impossible dream could be a reality.

Pique was keen to respond to the naysayers after Wednesday’s match, saying: “I understand that there are many people who want to bury us, coaches like (Arrigo) Sacchi, (Raymond) Domenech and I can give a list of many more coaches. but we’ve shown that we’re still here”. “We were prepared for all this”. On April 1 they will play Monaco in the Coupe de la Ligue final and are in the last eight of the Coupe de France, where they will play third-tier Avranches. We had that mourning on Valentine’s Day, and we were given a good going over.

In tonight’s other tie, Borussia Dortmund also overturned a first leg defeat, easing past Benfica 4-1 on aggregate. Barcelona cut into that 4-goal deficit early, but PSG – playing on the road at Camp Nou – seemingly ended the scare with a Edinson Cavani goal in the 62nd minute. However, karma struck back at the Argentine later when he squandered an one-on-one and then Barca scored three goals in the last seven minutes to clinch an improbable quarter-final berth. (Luis Enrique is 46 and runs marathons.) Then he sounded a lame-duck rallying cry: “If they could score four games, we can score six”. They had their chance.

Barcelona’s entire team mobbed the field, and fans in the crowd were seen weeping.

“I would say to the hospitals of Barcelona to hire nurses”.