Standup9ja - Suarez convinced Barca can topple PSG
Barcelona’s pride was wounded by a 4-0 thrashing handed to
them by Paris St Germain in the Champions League last 16 first leg but the team
believe they are capable of turning the tie around in the second leg, striker
Luis Suarez said yesterday.
Barca scraped a 2-1 win over struggling Leganes in their
first game after their harrowing defeat in Paris, but they head into today’s
return leg on a high after hammering Sporting Gijon 6-1 and Celta Vigo 5-0 in
their last two outings.
“A lot of time has passed since then, but the hardest thing
was the first few days,” Suarez told a news conference yesterday, recalling the
loss that has left Barca on their earliest exit from the Champions League
competition in a decade.
“That defeat hurt us a lot, but a few days later we were
able to lift ourselves up with a change in attitude and by scoring goals.”
Barca overcame a 2-0 defeat to AC Milan in a last 16 first
leg in 2013 to win 4-0 and knocked Gothenburg out of the 1986 European Cup
after losing a semifinal first leg 3-0, although no side has ever clawed back a
four-goal deficit in the Champions League.
“Nothing is impossible in football and if any team is
capable of scoring four goals it’s Barca, but we’ll do it our way. We need to
remember the game lasts 94-95 minutes and we need to be patient and not get
desperate,” added Suarez.
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