Barcelona will try to reach their first UEFA Champions League semifinal since 2019 when they host Paris Saint-Germain at Montjuic.
Xavi’s team won a thrilling quarterfinal first leg at Parc des Princes last week as Raphinha scored an excellent brace and Andreas Christensen came off the bench to head the winner.
PSG came from 1-0 down at halftime to lead 2-1 before subsiding and Luis Enrique will hope for a more telling impact from Kylian Mbappe, who existed largely on the margins of the initial encounter.
The Sporting News is following Barcelona vs. PSG live, providing score updates, commentary and highlights as they happen.
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Barcelona vs PSG live score
1st Half Goalscorers Barcelona 1 (4) Raphinha 12’ PSG 1 (3) Dembele 39’
Lineups:
Barcelona (4-3-3 right to left): 1. Marc-Andre ter Stegen (GK) — 23. Jules Kounde, 4. Ronald Araujo, 33. Pau Cubarsi, 2. Joao Cancelo — 22. Ilkay Gundogan, 21. Frenkie de Jong, 8. Pedri — 27. Lamine Yamal, 9. Robert Lewandowski, 11. Raphinha.
PSG (4-3-3 right to left): 99. Gianluigi Donnarumma (GK) — 2. Achraf Hakimi, 5. Marquinhos, 21. Lucas Hernandez, 25. Nuno Mendes — 33. Warren Zaire-Emery, 17. Vitinha, 8. Fabian Ruiz — 29. Bradley Barcola, 7. Kylian Mbappe, 10. Ousmane Dembele.
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Barcelona vs PSG live updates, highlights, and commentary
45th minute: Barcola makes a nuisance of himself again, shimmying and twisting before lashing a shot wide across goal.
43th minute: Vitinha clatters over from 25 yards. Dembele’s not happy and understandably, that just releases all the pressure when Barca badly want to get to halftime.
39th minute: GOOOOAAAAAALLLLL!!!!! Ousmane Dembele!!!!!
Dembele shuts up those booing Barca fans with another scintillating finish. Barcola was involved again and whipped a lovely low ball across the face of goal. Mbappe couldn’t connect but, my word, did Dembele connect.
37th minute: Dembele scoots past Cancelo. Not for the last time, you’d imagine. Gundogan reads the situation, intercepts the cross, puts his foot on the ball and gets his team moving. Cool as you like.
34th minute: Inigo Martinez is into the action, with Yamal the player sacrificed. That’s such a shame.
32nd minute: It took Araujo a long time to leave the field. He couldn’t really have any complaints, and yet… Anyway, Dembele over the free-kick and flicks his effort over, rippling the top of the netting.
29th minute: RED CARD FOR RONALD ARAUJO, BARCA DOWN TO 10 MEN! A huge moment in the tie! Barcola gets goal side of Araujo and brings him down. It’s just outside the box, but a red card for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity. Good heavens!
STRAIGHT RED FOR RONALD ARAÚJO 🟥
Barca are down to 10 men after 30 minutes 👀 pic.twitter.com/WinfQmdz4i
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) April 16, 2024
28th minute: Excellent save from Ter Stegen to deny Mbappe! The France star got to Barcola’s cutback ahead of De Jong and Ter Stegen got down with tha strong right wrist.
25th minute: Dembele clumps a corner straight into the side netting. As you can imagine, that’s raucously lapped up.
22nd minute: Yamal snaps into a challenge on Mendes deep in his own half. The Portuguese fullback has had a torrid opening to this game and now it’s PSG struggling to get out. Donnarumma is going to go long.
20th minute: Lewandowski goes close! Raphinha fizzes in a low cross from the left. Mendes can’t deal with it and Lewandowski shifts onto his right foot to fire over. To be honest, you’d expect a goalscorer of his calibre to have at least hit the target.
19th minute: PSG back into their possession act but Barca are absorbing it with the assurance of the team with a cushion. Now they break and Pedri tries to slide it through to Gundogan. Donnarumma makes a sliced clearance under pressure.
12th minute: GOOOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!! Raphinha!!!!!!
Barcelona lead against the run of play and it’s all about Yamal. A bit of pace and trickery and the 16-year-old storms past Nuno Mendes. Arriving at the near post is Raphinha, who turns the ball in for his third goal of the tie.
9th minute: Dembele stands on the ball, falls over and it goes out for a throw. The Barca fans respond in the pantomime style.
8th minute: Mbappe burns away from Yamal but his cross hits Kounde. PSG swiftly get the ball back and return to their work. Barca unable to get a foothold so far.
6th minute: Loads of whistles every time Demeble gets the ball. Here he is down the right and his cross is blocked behind by Cancelo for a corner.
5th minute: Barcola gets a foot in to disturb Araujo. De Jong helps his centre-back out but this has been a good, aggressive start from PSG and Barca are having problems playing through them.
2nd minute: Mbappe is playing through the middle and tries to spin away from Cubarsi but the youngster holds his ground.
Kickoff: First half
Here we go!
2 mins before kickoff: Loads of whistles for the Champions League anthem from the locals. Manchester City were ahead of the curve, guys. The visiting PSG contingent are also making some racket.
4 mins before kickoff: The teams are in the tunnel. Some pensive looks. This is huge.
15 mins before kickoff: Ousmane Dembele is back in Barcelona to face his former club. The France winger was superb in the first game, scoring a wonderful goal and also hitting the woodwork. He celebrated said goal, which meant a bit of a frosty reception outside the stadium earlier.
OUSMANE DEMBÉLÉ PUNISHES HIS FORMER CLUB 🥶 pic.twitter.com/3WPeLjwIhA
— CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ (@CBSSportsGolazo) April 10, 2024
35 mins before kickoff: It will be interesting to see how Pedri and De Jong’s fitness holds up. Pedri hasn’t started a game since March 3 due to his latest muscle injury and De Jong’s only start in that period came last week. It means Roberto and Christensen’s suspensions feel even more ill-timed. Fermin Lopez and Oriol Romeu might both have important jobs to do off the bench,
1 hour before kickoff: Achraf Hakimi returns from suspension for PSG, meaning Marquinho can revert to centre-back. Warren Zaire-Emery and Bradley Barcola start after impressing from the bench last week when they replaced Lee Kang-In and Marco Asensio. Those are among the substitutes.
1 hr 10 mins before kickoff: The teams are in. Pedri, who came off the bench to provide a sublime assist for Raphinha’s second goal, is the only alteration from last week’s Barcelona XI. Club captain Sergi Roberto is suspended alongside Andreas Christensen, who scored the winner in Paris.
🚨 BARÇA XI 🚨#BarçaPSG | #UCL pic.twitter.com/c4E4uGX6Lu
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) April 16, 2024
1 hr 45 mins before kickoff: Barcelona’s players have arrived at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys. Much has been made of their temporary home not being cut out for nights like this to the same extent as Camp Nou. It’s unquestionably a very different setting but Barca have settled into their new surroundings, winning five and drawing one of their past six home matches across all competitions.
2 hrs 10 mins before kickoff: Luis Enrique heads back to Catalonia for a game that could do plenty to define his PSG tenure. The former Barcelona boss has done plenty to remould this team in his image. His PSG are a younger, more dynamic and tactically flexible outfit than the previous sides that have failed in their attempts to secure European glory. We saw that as they ransacked Barca early in last week’s second half. But suffering defeat when the pressure ramped up felt very much like the PSG of old. Tonight Luis Enrique needs to show a definitive break from that history.
2 hrs 40 mins before kickoff: Barcelona and Xavi have looked like a collective with the weight lifted off their shoulders since the head coach announced he would leave at the end of this season. The Blaugrana are currently on a six-match winning streak across all competitions and you have to go back 14 fixtures to find their previous defeat — a helter-skelter 5-3 LaLiga loss at home to Villarreal on January 27.
3 hours before kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News’ coverage of Barcelona vs. Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals. These two sides produced a little masterpiece in Paris six days ago. Same again?
🔥 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬! 🔥#BarçaPSG | #UCL pic.twitter.com/hG9ZIhjYSG
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) April 16, 2024
Barcelona vs PSG kick off time
This Champions League clash takes place at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys in Barcelona, Spain and kicks off on Tuesday, April 16 at 9:00 p.m. local time.
Here’s how that time translates across some of the major territories:
Date Kickoff time USA Tue, Apr. 16 3:00 p.m. ET Canada Tue, Apr. 16 3:00 p.m. ET UK Tue, Apr. 16 8:00 p.m. BST India Wed, Apr. 17 12:30 a.m. IST Australia Wed, Apr. 17 5:00 a.m. AEST
Barcelona vs PSG lineups, team news
Xavi needed to make changes from the first leg with Sergi Roberto and Andreas Christensen suspended. Pedri came into the midfield to replace Roberto.
Despite no major changes on the injury front, Xavi will be wary of five players being just one yellow card away from missing a potential semifinal first leg.
Barcelona (4-3-3 right to left): Ter Stegen (GK) — Kounde, Araujo, Cubarsi, Cancelo — Gundogan, De Jong, Pedri — Lamine Yamal, Lewandowski, Raphinha.
Barcelona subs (12): Pena (GK), Astralaga (GK), Martinez, Ferran, Joao Felix, Alonso, Romeu, Roque, Casado, Fermin, Guiu, Fort.
Luis Enrique freshened up his team with Warren Zaire-Emery and Bradley Barcola into the starting lineup as Achraf Hakimi returned from suspension.
PSG (4-3-3 right to left): Donnarumma (GK) — Hakimi, Marquinhos, Hernandez, Mendes — Zaire-Emery, Vitinha, Ruiz — Barcola, Mbappe, Dembele.
PSG subs (12): Navas (GK), Tenas (GK), Ugarte, Ramos, Asensio, Danilo, Lee, Kolo Muani, Mukiele, Soler, Beraldo, Skriniar.
Barcelona vs PSG live stream, TV channel
Here’s how to watch this Champions League match across selected areas of the world’s major regions:
USA: Champions League matches are available to stream on Paramount+ (English). New users can currently get a FREE seven-day trial.
ViX and UniMas are the place to go for Spanish subscribers with Fubo also offering streaming access and a FREE trial to new subscribers.
Canada: Every Champions League game streams live on DAZN.
UK: This match will be broadcast on TNT Sports 1 and streamed on discovery+. Every UEFA Champions League and Europa League match this season is available on TNT Sports for only £30.99 / month.
India: JioTV and Sony LIV are the live streaming options for this game.
Australia: The second leg of Barcelona vs PSG will air exclusively on Stan Sport.
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