Barcelona and PSG will meet again this Tuesday, 16 February 2021 at the Camp Nou for the Champions League.
From their Champions
League quarterfinal duel in 1995 to the historic 'comeback' of 2017, the
rivalry between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain has grown and on Tuesday
they cross their paths again in the first leg of the round of 16 final of the
Champions League 2020-2021.
Paris Saint-Germain and
FC Barcelona duels
began their history on March 1, 1995, in the first quarter-final of the League of
Champions played by the young club of the French capital. It was a real
struggle between David and Goliath, as the Catalan team had been European
champion in 1992 and runner-up in 1994.
A goal from George
Weah (minute 54) responded to the opening of the scoring, which had been
achieved for the local Igor Korneyev (48). The match ended 1-1 and everything
was open for the return.
PSG and Barça met again in Rotterdam (Holland) to
play in the Cup Winners' Cup final, then the second most important competition
in the 'Old Continent' and currently disappeared.
PSG, champion in that tournament in 1996, encountered a
phenomenon that embittered the target in 1997, Ronaldo.
The new Qatari owner of PSG arrived in 2011; put the League of
Champions at the top of their wish list. In his second season, with leaders
such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, his dream took shape and the Paris
team reached the quarterfinals, where chance matched it with Barça.
PSG arrived at Camp
Nou with the obligation to score, after a 2-2 draw in the first leg,
achieved in the last second thanks to Blaise Matuidi.
Between 2013 and 2016, PSG fell four times in the
quarterfinals, two of them against Barcelona, in 2013 and then in 2015 (1-3,
0-2). In the last 16 of the 2016-2017 campaign, PSG then led by Unai Emery
again faced Barcelona. The first round seemed to give PSG a quarterfinal
ticket, which won 4-0 in the first leg in France.
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