Barcelona is in the semi-finals of the Champions League with a global victory of 5-3, despite the loss of 3-1 in Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday with Serhou Guirassy hitting a hat-trick. Holding an advance of 4-0 after a dominant performance in Catalonia, visitors were made to sweat while Dortmund and Guirassy almost achieved superb recovery. Guirassy put Dortmund at the front with a panenka in the place with 11 minutes missing and led them two goals at the start of the second half.
Dortmund felt a feeling but Barcelona retreded, Fermin Lopez forcing Ramy Bensebaini to a clean goal with a little more than half an hour.
Guirassy rekindled Dortmund’s belief with a third in the 76th minute and the final stages may have been different if Julian Brandt had not been offside before scoring with 11 minutes remaining.
Despite the loss of their first competition match in 2025, Barcelona is through the semi-finals, keeping her dream of a remarkable triple living, 10 years after the end of the feat by winning the Champions League in Berlin.
Barcelona coach Hansi praised Dortmund’s performance and said his team “had to focus on the positive, not on the negatives”.
“What the team has shown in recent weeks is incredible. We have a lot ahead of us this season. We are a little further, but we are not even close to the end,” added the German.
Barcelona, considered as the favorites of the title, will face Inter Milan or Bayern Munich in the Final Four.
‘Fought until death’
Clearly outraged in the first leg, Dortmund will be inspired by Tuesday’s performance, including the shape of a Guirassy scorer.
The 29 -year -old Guinean, who spent most of his career bounced between the first and second divisions in Germany and France, now has 13 goals in the Champions League this season – more than any other player.
“I am proud of what we were able to do. Barcelona is a solid team, but we fought until death. We have shown what we can do,” Guirassy told Amazon Prime.
Despite a big lead in the first stage, Hansi Flick allowed his pre-match commitment to continue to attack, opting against the rest of his trident striker by Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal or Raphinha.
With coach Niko Kovac admitting that Dortmund needed a “miracle” to reach the semi-finals after the debacle in Catalonia, the task of the hosts became a little more difficult when the Captain and the central defender Emre Can were excluded with an injury just before the match.
But Dortmund came out of the blocks, Guirassy and strike partner Maximilian Beier approaching the 10 minutes of opening before Pascal Gross was the victim of clumsy fault in the box of Wojciech Szczesny.
Guirassy intervened on the spot and was without nervous, calmly freeing a panenka to put the hosts in progress.
Dortmund decided Barcelona, opened several times without reward until half-time, but has been counting for four minutes in the second half, Guirassy heading in a Ramy Bensebaini aid in a corner.
With Dortmund de Dortmund’s blood, Dortmund’s familiar Westfalenstadion response, Barcelona’s familiar response was to send their attack on the right and the move paid almost immediately.
After the Yamal cross was half rid, Fermin Lopez found itself in the teenager’s chain, whisking a pass to Lewandowski that Bensebaini struck in his own net.
With the contents of Barcelona to control possession as the clock ended, Guirassy rereads the hopes of the hosts when he marked his third at the last quarter of an hour, exploding at close range after a few drops of dribble of the teenager Julian Duranville.
Fans of the house broke out when Brandt scored three minutes later, but the midfielder was offside, allowing Barcelona a break.
Barcelona managed to keep despite the waves of Dortmund’s energetic attacks in the last stages to stay on the right track for the triple.
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