Barcelona 1 Man City 0
Dortmund 0 Juventus 3
But Joe’s Citeh go out, as expected.
Enjoyed the silky scalpel-passing of Messi & Iniesta, a surgical duo who open up your body without the anaesthetic required by medical law.
Messi & Iniesta together make each other 35% better than each would be alone.
Commentators said Messi pulled off 9 nutmegs in the first half and his crossfield pass to find Rakitic for 1-0 would have been seen as surreal by any other player.
Rakitic chested the ball and lifted it past the arm of the advancing Joe Hart.
After that big Joe, who stopped a Messi penalty in the first leg, saved everything, tackled Messi in the box and took it off him, performed like a man possessed, made great save after great save after great save.
Fun viewing, always compelling.
If Lampard had replaced Yaya Toure, who made way for Bony, Lampard would have buried the penalty that Kun Aguero missed in 77.
What a pitifully inept penalty that was.
Man City have now lost 4 of their last 5 games.
In Dortmund, Carlos Tevez scored two and made one for Morata in Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund 0 Juventus 3 on the night.
Are Juventus a force in Europe once again?
Too soon to say.
But they won comfortably, even after Pogba went off injured in the first half.
On aggregate it was 5-1
Is Carlos Tevez back?
Not really. He never went away.
What a player! What a career he’s still having.