In other news…
Assuming you watch Manchester City vs Liverpool tonight on the off chance that City pulled off an incredible comeback, you might have missed the Roma vs Barcelona game.
Barça won 4-1 in the first leg, a seemingly comfortable result to take to to the Stadio Olympico, but there was always the element of doubt, as Roma had the revered away goal.
Roma took the lead in the 6th minute through Edin Džeko, the ideal start to mount the comeback, but they still needed two more as well as a clean sheet. Captain Danielle De Rossi then scored from the spot in the 58th minute. Suddenly, it was game on, and the hosts needed just one goal to go through, as long as they could keep Messi & co. out.
And they got the goal in the most dramatic of circumstances. In the 82nd minute, Roma had a corner. Barça were tiring. In the words of commentator Peter Drury, ‘every second a minute, every minute an hour’.
The corner was whipped in by Cengiz Ãœnder to the near post and Konstantinos Manolas attacked it, glancing the ball into the far corner of the net, sending Roma to the semi-finals and crushing Catalan hearts.
“Roma have risen from their ruins”, belted Peter Drury as the Stadio Olympico erupted.
GOOOOOOOOOAL!
Manolas heads home Roma's third, and as it stands…
Barca are going out! 😱 pic.twitter.com/3CXUZBYGNn
— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) April 10, 2018
Alongside Manchester City, Barcelona were one of the favourite to win this year’s Champions League, but we will see semi-finals featuring Liverpool and Roma instead. Football is great sometimes.
Scenes! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Barcelona are out! Roma through from 4-1 down! Football! Bloody hell! pic.twitter.com/Z4CHPZMpYf
— Skipper (@majau_k) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/balldntlie/status/983806277636669441
And they called Roma the easiest opposition you could face in the quarter finals alongside Sevilla.
— Mina Rzouki (@Minarzouki) April 10, 2018
