To be able to revive Barcelona's 1-1 UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw against Paris Saint-Germain, which secured the Blaugrana's devote the semi-finals Hamilton Academical Barcelona entered the match without their chief, Carles Puyol, and arguably their best centre-half, Javier Mascherano, while superstar striker Lionel Messi was required to start out the match on the bench, fighting a hamstring injury he found in the first-leg at the Parc des Princes. With no real result in talk about, apart from their benefit on absent targets, Barcelona faced an fight, even with the Camp Nou crowd to their rear. Paris Saint-Germain all things considered were probably younger, more athletic and crucially, under much less pressure to deliver an effect. Despite a line-up and a decorated coach, PSG were the underdogs, not that you would have now been in a position to tell from the first-half of action. Xavi's free-kick aside, Barcelona were struggling to create an effect, and were scarcely able to reach Salvatore Sirigu's goal, let alone register a go on target. PSG on another hand had no such difficulty. Against a fragile Barcelona safety, the visitors had several possibilities to just take the lead as Ezequiel Lavezzi and Lucas Moura wreaked havoc on a different centre-back pairing. Victor Valdes came to the resuce, but he was only delaying the inevitable. PSG were in get a handle on of the game - also without ownership of the ball and the only surprise was that it took them 50 minutes to break the deadlock. Exchanging a with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, somehow Javier Pastore had the rate (the determination?) to rise past the Barca safety and the Argentine displayed exceptional composure in order to complete the opportunity, driving the ball past Valdes at his near-post. Barcelona were behind, and in desperate need of a miracle. Enter Lionel Messi. Despite having one leg, Messi had enough to turn the tide of this match in Barca's favor, playing an important component in the build-up to Pedro's well-taken equaliser. For the present time, Messi's work is performed. They can sleep, recover and reunite in the semi-finals. Follow us on Twitter
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