In the biggest shock of the European season, Roma overcame a 4-1 first leg loss to Barcelona, winning 3-0 Tuesday night at home to move onto the Champions League semifinals on away goals. Barcelona squandered a 3-goal first leg lead and will only have themselves to blame as they only managed two shots on goal against Roma. Ivan Rakitić played the full 90 minutes in the match but will be disappointed with the effort as Barca have now been eliminated in the Champions League quarterfinals for a third year straight.
Dejan Lovren and Liverpool are through to the semis with a 5-1 aggregate win over Manchester City (2-1 Tuesday night) and will join Roma in the draw this Friday. City got off to a blistering start, scoring inside five minutes and keeping the pressure on, hitting the post and having a controversial offside called against them, but Liverpool sat patient for their chances and scored twice in the second half to put City away. Lovren did what he needed to do on the night and will play against some elite Champions League competition one month before the World Cup begins.
Lovren in. Rakitić out.
Who would have thought?
MANventus !!!!
This dude is an aerial BEAST.
Kroos is pedestrian …
Need Kovačić in the second half.
CL is on fire.
Rakitic finger surgery?
Even more rest for his legs!
He just needs to design an intelligent rehab program.
Rakitic is going to be ready for June.
He was running way too much for Barca.
Rakitic to have surgery on his hand.
No one gives a shit about Roma on a global scale. Much more valuable to have Messi and UEFAlona still in the CL.
Croatians love conspiracy theories
Its very fishy that Barcelona couldnt hold a 3 goal lead and couldnt score an away goal. Looks like its all WWE scripted Champions League.
@ BZ
We need to beat Nigeria and Iceland.
Argentina is a showcase for us.
Rested Messi will also be unleashed on the rest of the group as well.
@ LAknat
Can’t wait to WARship your prediction.
Just get your God Halilovic to the World Cup!
We need his attack dribble powers.
Ball watcher Rakitic will watch it on his television for the next stage of champions cup! Bellboy Kovacic couldn’t get a call for substitution as Juventus will trash Madrid in Bernabeu.
Damn, I will create my own web and everybody up here will warship for my prediction…
Oh how I hope Lovren proves me wrong! I’ll go on record and say it, other than his bad set piece play for us, i also don’t like his passing skills and passing decisions. Not too mention his Diva Dejan persona impacts the team negatively.
Sorry guys, but the rested Rakitic theory is ten fold negated by a now rested Messi too.
Dejan Lovren – 9
The much-maligned centre-back produced one of his best ever performances for Liverpool, on a colossal night for him.
Aerially he was superb, his focus was absolutely spot on, and barring one reckless lunge on Raheem Sterling, all facets of his game were immaculate.
@ Svima
Spinning our way boys.
Lovren dominating Man City and peder Pep, into the CL semis.
Rested Rakitic going to beast for the Vatreni.
Modrić and Kovačić going to divide minutes the rest of the way.
Once again a nogometaš will lift the CL trophy.
It is our time to shine at the World Cup.
ZDS
His single bad moments are game changers though. They are very high impact errors.
That’s the problem.
Ya lovren seems to screwed his head back. If he keeps it up no doubt he starts for us in June.
lovren had one bad moment when flew in for a needless tackle in the first half. apart from that he was very good, very composed
Glad to see Rakitic out as well.
We need him hungry and healthy.
Yup.
Season is long enough. Glad to see Raketa eliminated. Now he can focus on the World Cup.
Unbelievable comeback for Roma.
Rakitic wont be playing for the Champions leauge title …on the plus side he might be better rested for the world cup
I wanna see 23 Hrvati lift a trophy in July..
i wanna see another croat lift the trophy!