Kylian Mbappé, anonymous in the first leg, dispatched the resulting penalty to give PSG the lead in the tie. If that was the end to this frenetic tie, it is unlikely to be the end to the developing rivalry between the twoVitinha was left unmarked on the edge of the box from a corner in the 54th minute. The home side did have chances to level, but they came and went, with Mbappé adding his second goal on the counter-attack in the 89th minute to seal PSG's passage into the semifinal as flares were set off in the away end in the second tier behind the goal where he had just scored. He duly smashed in to the bottom corner and then, just after the hour mark, João Cancelo clattered into Dembéle inside the box. Before the game, he had said he was convinced that would be the case. Now he has helped PSG overturn a first leg defeat in the competition for the first ever time. The touch was light, but it existed and it is not the sort of decision VAR often intervenes in. All of those factors have added an edge to this fixture and it was apparent here, with the extra police presence palpable and supporters chanting their dislike for each other throughout the day in the city all the way up to the stadium in Montjuic. Robert Lewandowski blazed a chance to add another goal for Barça over the bar before the game swung definitively just before the half hour mark. The red card has marked the tie. He killed the tie. The anger felt as much about a loss of control of the match as it did the decisions on the pitch. The referee was really bad. "Dembélé's goal just before the break bred confidence and PSG poured forward at the start of the second half.
