Roma 3 Barcelona 0 (4-4 agg): LaLiga pioneers paralyzed as Giallorossi head through on away objectives
A dazzling 3-0 triumph at Stadio Olimpico sent Roma through to the Champions League keep going four on away objectives to Barcelona's detriment.
Roma achieved the semi-finals of the Champions League with a dazzling 3-0 prevail upon Barcelona to secure an impossible total win on away objectives.
The Giallorossi had trailed 4-1 after the primary leg, however they overwhelmed LaLiga's driving side at the Stadio Olimpico as objectives from Edin Dzeko, Daniele De Rossi and Kostas Manolas secured an emotional triumph.
Dzeko was magnificent all through and got ahead of schedule before winning a punishment after the break for De Rossi to pull Roma to inside one objective of the last four.
An unwell Barca still looked just as they would do what's necessary to rub through as chances traveled every which way for the hosts, however Manolas - who, similar to De Rossi, had put through his own particular net at Camp Nou - headed home eight minutes from time to put Eusebio Di Francesco's side in the driving seat.
In spite of the fact that the guests all of a sudden gathered a test, they couldn't constrain a conclusive objective and Lionel Messi and co smashed out in barely credible conditions.
Roma last achieved the last four of Europe's head club rivalry in 1983-84 when they lost to Liverpool in the last, and they will now extravagant their odds against anybody - including the Reds and previous star Mohamed Salah, who vanquished Manchester City in Tuesday's other quarter-last.
Roma handled their errand with zeal yet their mission for objectives quickly left expanding gaps at the back and Messi's pass liberated Sergi Roberto for the amusement's first opening, Alisson covering a low drive.
Be that as it may, Dzeko took his risk at the opposite end following six minutes. The previous Manchester City man kept running past Samuel Umtiti to meet De Rossi's pass and toe a messy complete past Marc-Andre ter Stegen, producing sufficient clamor and confidence in the stands.
Champions League debutant Patrik Schick gestured high and wide after a corner, before misusing a gigantic open door with another header from Federico Fazio's cross that flashed past the left-hand post.
And after that the ball was in Dzeko's court to twice run for objective with his head; the main exertion compelling Ter Stegen to turn the ball over the best, while the second circled clumsily behind.
It was Dzeko's eminent focus forward play that set up the second. He tormented his way past Gerard Pique into the zone and afterward went to ground under a pull and an excursion, permitting De Rossi to shake home a punishment.
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Radja Nainggolan's volley was held by Ter Stegen as Barcelona neglected to stem the stream of shots, with De Rossi heading wide in a matter of seconds a while later.
Ter Stegen parried a Stephan El Shaarawy exertion far from the objective line not long after he touched base from the seat, yet the definitive objective would soon land as Manolas gestured past the established goalkeeper from Cengiz Under's corner.
In spite of the fact that Barcelona pushed hard toward the finish of a terrible show, they could discover no chance to get through as they succumbed to one of the best rebounds in European history, Roma's three-objective turnaround coordinating Deportivo La Coruna in 2004 and Barca's own heroics last season against Paris Saint-Germain.
Key Opta details:
- Roma have kept five sequential clean sheets in their five matches at the Stadio Olimpico in this current season's Champions League, their best at any point keep running without yielding on home soil in the European Cup/Champions League.
- Barcelona yielded the same number of objectives today around evening time as in their past 10 Champions League recreations joined.
- Barcelona are winless in their last five away knockout matches in the Champions League (D1 L4), yielding 13 objectives and scoring just once.
- Edin Dzeko has scored three objectives in his last three Champions League recreations against Barcelona, more than he has gotten against some other club in the opposition.
- Dzeko has scored in three back to back Champions League appearances for just the second time, and the first since December 2009 while with Wolfsburg.
- Daniele De Rossi scored his first Champions League objective since stowing a support against Bayer Leverkusen in October 2015.
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