Gianluigi Donnarumma came through and Paris Saint-Germain defeated Liverpool in a penalty shootout to join Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan in the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday.
\nPSG beat Liverpool 1-0 on the night to level the aggregate score at 1-1. Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 scored 12 minutes into the second-leg match after a blunder by the Liverpool defense, The Associated Press reported.
\nAfter extra time, Donnarumma stopped the penalty shots by Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones to secure his team a 4-1 shootout win. Desire Doue scored the winning spot kick for PSG, which will face either Aston Villa or Club Brugge.
\n\u201cIt does not matter if we deserve the win. Both teams deserved to go through,” PSG coach Luis Enrique said. \u201cWe were better in Paris and they were better here. My team showed great personality and character at Anfield.\u201d
\nThe French league leader \u2014 seeking its first Champions League title \u2014 had lost at this stage in five of the past eight editions. It lost to Borussia Dortmund in last season’s semifinals.
\n\u201cIt was the best game of football I have ever been involved in,” Liverpool manager Arne Slot said. “It was an incredible performance, especially if you compare it with last week. We were creating chances and then we were 1-0 down. We ran out of luck after last week.\u201d
\nBarcelona cruised past Benfica with Raphinha scoring twice and Lamine Yamal once in a 3-1 win at home.
\nThe Catalan club advanced 4-1 on aggregate score after last week\u2019s 1-0 victory and will play either Borussia Dortmund or Lille in the quarterfinals.
\nAfter a 3-0 first-leg win, Bayern Munich had no trouble advancing past German rival Bayer Leverkusen.
\nBayern made it to the last eight a record 23 times in the Champions League era after a 2-0 win at Leverkusen to advance 5-0 on aggregate.
\nInter moved on past Feyenoord with a 2-1 victory at San Siro to advance 4-1 on aggregate.
\nBayern and Inter will meet in the last eight.
\nA thrilling clash at Anfield saw chances come and go at both ends, with Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson pulling off a string of saves to deny PSG, and with Liverpool substitute Jarell Quansah hitting the post in the second half.
\nDemb\u00e9l\u00e9 took advantage of mix up between Ibrahima Konate and Alisson to roll the ball into the empty net for the only goal of the game.
\nPremier League leader Liverpool, which did not make it to the Champions League last season, won the first leg 1-0 through Harvey Elliott\u2019s late goal in Paris last week.
\nBarcelona powers into quarterfinals Raphinha\u2019s double made him the leading scorer in the Champions League this season with 11 goals. He had scored the lone goal last week in Lisbon.
\nThe Brazil forward put Barcelona ahead in the 11th, then Yamal added to the lead in the 27th before assisting in Raphinha\u2019s second goal in the 42nd to become the youngest player to score and assist in a Champions League match at 17 years, 241 days.
\n\u201cMy teammates make things much easier for me,\u201d Yamal said. \u201cIt was a good goal but sometimes these things come off and sometimes they don\u2019t. For the assist, I tried to shoot and Raphinha turned it into a goal.\u201d
\nNicol\u00e1s Otamendi scored for Benfica in the 13th to become the third-oldest scorer in a Champions League knockout game at the age of 37 years, 27 days, according to UEFA. Yamal\u2019s goal meant he became the second-youngest.
\nKane leads Bayern Harry Kane scored his 10th Champions League goal of the season and set up another as Bayern Munich cruised into the quarterfinals.
\nLeverkusen never looked likely to overturn the three-goal deficit from the first leg, even before Kane bundled in the ball at a free kick in the 52nd after Leverkusen\u2019s Patrik Schick misjudged an attempted clearance.
\nKane set up Alphonso Davies for Bayern\u2019s second goal with a flicked cross in the 71st as the all-German rivalry became a one-sided contest. Bayern could have scored more as Jamal Musiala hit the crossbar with one shot and the post with another.
\nInter comfortably advances A goal at the start of each half saw Inter easily advance, with Marcus Thuram scoring a stunning eighth-minute opener. The Inter forward received the ball midway inside the Feyenoord half and then weaved his way into the area before unleashing a powerful effort into the top right corner.
\nJakub Moder leveled from the penalty spot shortly before halftime after being tripped by Hakan \u00c7alhanoglu.
\nInter restored its advantage on the night six minutes into the second half with a penalty of its own, which \u00c7alhanoglu converted after Mehdi Taremi was fouled by Thomas Beelen right in the corner of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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