Barcelona beat Paris Saint-Germain 2:3 in the Champions League quarter-finals. Xavi came out the big winner, when two of his substitutes arranged a huge turnaround.
Barcelona refused to be interviewed by the Movistar network after a racist comment by commentator Mono Burgos about 16-year-old Lamin Yamal. Barcelona has advanced in 40 of the previous 42 occasions in which they have won away from home in the first leg of a European knockout stage. This is the first time Barcelona scored three goals in an away game in a knockout stage since they won 1:3 with Luis Enrique on the lines against PSG in the 2014 quarter-final. Andreas Christensen, who turned 28 today, is the ever Barcelona player to score a goal on his birthday. Since 2000, there has not been a player who has scored a goal in a Champions League knockout stage on his Birthday in the deciding stages (from the quarterfinals onwards). Lamin. Yamal became the youngest player to appear in the last four years of the UEFA Champions League. He overtook Ryan Sharkey, who played four years ago when he was 17.