Barcelona braved the intimidating atmosphere at Galatasaray and came away with a 2-1 victory to reach the Europa League quarter-final, aided by a wonder-goal from wunderkind Pedri. The home side took the lead just before the half hour mark with a fine diving header from Brazilian centre back Marcao diverting a corner home from eight yards out. Ad/> The lead lasted for ten minutes before Pedri equalised in sublime style.
Collecting the ball in the area he barely shimmied but did enough to leave Marcao and Berkan Kutlu on the floor before he slotted home. TransfersMan City to offer Haaland £500,000-per-week contract – Paper RoundYESTERDAY AT 00:10 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored the winner when, after Inaki Pena had denied Sergio Busquets and Pedri, Frenkie de Jong cleverly headed square in the box and the former Arsenal striker nodded in. There were unsavoury scenes in the closing moments, with Jordi Alba having bottles thrown at him while taking a throw-in.
The referee initially appeared set to take the players from the field, before continuing the game, after handing the Spanish full-back a yellow card for booting the ball into the crowd. Europa League fixtures/results Europa League top scorers TALKING POINT Xavi's new regime survive first tough away test — They came into the game as massive favourites but make no mistake this was a very tough assignment in front of the usual intimidating crowd at Galatasaray. Most impressively they kept composure after going a goal behind and kept playing their way back into the game.
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