Wards Ernesto Valverde confidently beat "retirees" at the Camp Nou (3-0) and went into the next stage of the tournament.

This evening at the Camp Nou was to decide the last quarter-finalist of the Champions League. Ernesto Valverde entrusted the place in the start to Usman Dembele, who showed himself very well in the last match of the championship. Mentor Chelsea, in turn, decided to play with the center forward, releasing Olivier Giroux. From the first minutes the Catalans seized the gaming initiative and very quickly opened an account. Luis Suarez great reference in a foreign penalty and otpasoval for Messi - Leo blow from an acute angle grieved Tibo Courtois. 1: 0.

After that, the "pensioners" responded with a series of good attacks, but it was not possible to create a truly dangerous moment. A "blue garnet" scored again. Lionel Messi dragged the ball to someone else's penalty and excellent transfer found Dembele - Usman with a powerful blow doubled the advantage of his team. 2: 0. On this the hosts did not intend to stop. Andreas Iniesta burst into someone else's penalty area and gave the heel to Suarez - Luis at point-blank range could not outplay Courtois.

By the end of the half, Antonio Conte's wards have inflated the tempo and created several dangerous moments, but Alonso's shot was blocked, and Ngolo Kante's blow to the far corner was not enough accuracy. Apogee of all was a free-kick from Alonso, when the ball licked the frame of the gate. Rest team left with a confident advantage of Barcelona, ??but the game "retired" left hope for an interesting second half.

In the debut of the second half of the game, the team of Antonio Conte could well count on a penalty spot, but Damir Skomina did not see a violation of the rules on Alonso in the penalty area of ??Barcelona. "Blue" desperately tried to return to the game, but again distinguished themselves "blue-pomegranate". Lionel Messi picked up the ball on the outskirts of the penalty area, advanced to the gate and sent the ball between the legs of Thibaut Courtois. 3: 0. Very uncertain Belgian duel. The guard of the gates of the guests did not help out when he had to, and was visibly nervous.

Antonio Conte immediately tried to refresh his team's attack with the exit of Alvaro Morata and David Dzappakosty. And if the Italian added movements on the right flank, the attacker disappeared into the field and nothing worth remembering. Barcelona, ??however, continued to respond with its attacks - Paulinho scored great head after filing with a corner, but Thibaut Courtois remembered that he was a world-class goalkeeper, and the team rescued. "Blue" also tried to score from the "second floor" - Rudiger hit his head sent the ball into the crossbar. For more time, the teams did not have enough. As a result, Barcelona confidently dealt with Chelsea and became the last quarterfinalist of the Champions League-2017/2018.

Barcelona - Chelsea 3: 0 (first match - 1: 1) Goals: Messi, 3, 63, Dembele, 20.

Barcelona: ter Stegen - Roberto, Pique, Umtiti, Alba - Dembele (Vidal, 67), Rakitic, Busquets (Gomes 62), Iniesta (Paulinho, 56) - Messi, L. Suarez.

Chelsea: Courtois - Aspilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger - Moses (Dzappakosta, 67), Fabregas, Cante, Alonso - Willian, Giroux (Morata, 66), Azar (Pedro, 82).

Warnings: Roberto - Willian, Giraud, Alonso.