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A few weeks ago, Paris Saint-Germain absolutely dismantled the greatest club in the world during their first leg Champion’s League match. Barcelona was faced with heading home for the second leg down 0-4 with no away goals and their tail between their legs.
But then today happened. The single greatest comeback in the history of the UEFA Champion’s League where Barcelona stormed back to score two first half goals (Luis Suárez 3′, Layvin Kurzawa 40′ Own Goal) with a Messi penalty tacked on in the 50th minute just after the second half began. With PSG scoring the all-important away goal, Barcelona was faced with having to score three goals in the final 30 minutes to move on.
Beginning with Neymar’s 88th-minute free-kick, they did just that. They turned the final five minutes of the game into absolute mayhem by scoring three goals to win 6-1, thus moving on 6-5 on aggregate.
You can watch all the full highlights here, but this was the goal that sealed it.
Hate on soccer all you want, but while you were sitting at your desk today, you missed quite possibly the greatest comeback in the history of soccer, if not sports. .
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I’m not going to bash soccer because those guys are amazing athletes with incredible WAGs but in a year that saw two major sports champions overcome 3-1 deficits and a third come back from being down 25 points, this isn’t even the best sports comeback of the past 6 months.
This is admittedly pretty obscure to most people, but I don’t want Roger Federer’s Australian Open title to get lost in the 2017 shuffle. Coming back from surgery and 6 months off, and he become the first player to ever win a slam while winning 3 different 5-set matches all against top 10 players. That’s a big fucking deal.
What a time to be alive
Don’t forget the most electrifying NCAA championship basketball game ever, or at least since the last time Nova won.
I agree, PSG literally let Barcelona walk all over them this game. Should have played with balls as they did in the first leg. Horrible performance overall.
Always enjoyed the “soccer isn’t a real sport” argument, as if being a fatass baseball pitcher requires even close to the level of athletic ability being a soccer player does. (Not saying baseball isn’t a sport — but soccer definitely is).
Zero respect for people who don’t respect soccer.
Zero respect for people who think Paris is a good song. Sad!
Who is your club Will?
I’m weird in that I more follow players and/or storylines. For example, cheered hard for Leicester last season because of their story. Cheering hard for Mourinho to do well at Man U with Pogba and Zlatan. Far and away watch Premier League more than any other league.
I think you gotta pick one club to just blindly support so you feel like you have a horse in the race and pray that they make champions league. The players and story lines are still there. Just adds another aspect.
As a lifelong Man U fan, even I cheered for Leicester last season. It’s great seeing an underdog win it all, but you still have to pick a team, Will. That’s how sports work.
Nah that isn’t weird at all. I followed Everton when Tim Howard played for them and I go to NYCFC and Red Bull games because even though the MLS is growing tickets are still cheap as hell.
It’s not that I don’t respect soccer players or their athletic ability, which is incredible; it’s that soccer is incredibly dull to watch. Kick it over here, kick it over there, fail to score, fail to score, repeat for 90 minutes plus some phantom unknown “injury time” and then end in a shootout. BORING.
For everyone that says soccer is boring to watch has to agree that baseball is worse and golf can be as boring at soccer. And if not, justify your answer.
I’m not a huge regular season baseball fan, but postseason baseball is incredible. For golf I try to nap until the last hour or so on Sundays, unless it’s the Masters.
So, essentially what you’re saying is watching grown men flop and show off their acting chops is a real sport just because baseball pitchers can be overweight. If you were going to make an argument, a better one would have been either a) high level of athletisim required to go for 90+ minutes or b) skill and coordination required for the sport to do what most of us can not do. Both of these would have been better. The rest of the world can keep soccer. I’ll stick with football, basketball, and baseball.
I respect their talent, the sick goals, and the passion of the fans, but I can’t take a sport seriously that has grown men pretend to die from barely being touched.
Yeah on the second penalty kick the guy went down like he got stabbed in the kidneys, had his achilles tendon sliced, and got kicked in the balls all at once. Soccer players are great athletes, but like with basketball I can’t respect a sport with such a prevalence of flopping and diving.
I hope a real Republican gets elected, we pass a flat tax and put accountants out of work. Fuck tax season and your opinions.
I’m not a tax accountant. I’m a financial statement auditor so not a great take there champ
If yall dislike soccer so badly, I got a great solution for you. Don’t watch it. I’d rather watch a soccer game that ends 0-0 10 times over than watch a single baseball game. But you don’t see me commenting that on every baseball-related post on the site.
Ugh I want to like this because I agree with half, but by far, my two favorite sports are baseball and soccer. So I can only half agree. Love both, for very different reasons.If you want to bash the NBA I’m in for that.
The most boring meaningless season is the NBA ref season. We knew the 16 teams at the start of the season that would make the playoffs and what’s worse only 4 maybe are real contenders.
Don’t worry, I and most other Americans are already ahead of you.
This worked out for me because I thoroughly hate both of these clubs so I got to watch Barca get thrashed in leg 1, then PSG have their hearts totally broken in leg 2.
Write an article about Christian Pulisic DO IT
“Oh my God, who the hell cares?!” – Peter Griffin and many PGPers right now.
Soccer is my favorite sport to watch, baseball is my favorite sport to follow. Where do I fit in?
Barca’s comeback was truly remarkable. As a huge Liverpool supporter, the 2005 Champions League Final takes the cake for me. Down 3-0 against AC Milan and fighting back to win the title takes the cake for me.
https://vimeo.com/24225186
Still might take Liverpool’s comeback from 3 goals in the 2004 final against AC Milan over this due to it being a final and how big of underdogs Liverpool were going into the game
Would rather be at my desk than watch soccer. Come back when you cover real sports Wool
Okay, so sit at your desk and keep crunching numbers you dork. I’ll be at the bar watching some of the best athletes alive and blacking out at 10am on Saturday.
Cool
Its busy season. I’m always at my desk.
I’ll say one thing for soccer. Because so much of it happens at least 5 hours difference, it’s a pretty great excuse for day drinking.
real sports; i presume you mean the ones only americans play……..