<p class="title">AS Roma pulled off one of the great Champions League comebacks by knocking Barcelona out with a remarkable 3-0 win in their quarter-final second leg on Tuesday, overcoming a 4-1 deficit from the first leg to reach the last four on away goals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roma's Kostas Manolas headed the decisive third goal in the 82nd minute, putting the Italians in the semi-finals for the first time since they reached the European Cup final in 1984 and compensating for his own goal in the first leg at the Nou Camp.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roma forward Edin Dzeko had opened the scoring when he beat the offside trap and latched onto a perfectly weighted through ball from Daniele De Rossi to score in the sixth minute, lifting the hopes of the boisterous home fans in the Olympic Stadium.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Captain De Rossi converted a penalty in the 58th for the hosts after Dzeko was fouled by Gerard Pique, giving Roma a deserved second goal after Dzeko and his Czech strike partner Patrik Schick missed two clear chances each before the break.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barca fielded the team that thrashed Roma in the first leg with the help of two own goals and were overwhelming favourites to go through but the five-times European champions barely got a foothold in the game after falling behind to Dzeko's opener.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The visitors' Sergi Roberto squandered the first chance of the game but after that Barcelona struggled to respond to Roma's constant waves of attacks until substitute Ousmane Dembele whistled a long-range shot just over the bar in added time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The runaway La Liga leaders had not lost in the Champions League this term until visiting Rome but slumped out at the quarter-final stage for the third year in a row after being eliminated by Juventus last season and Atletico Madrid in 2016.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was a reversal of fortune for Barcelona who last term pulled off the greatest comeback in Champions League history by overcoming a 4-0 loss to Paris St Germain, becoming only the second team after Deportivo La Coruna in 2004 to progress after losing the first leg by at least a three-goal deficit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roma had lost their last two quarter-final ties to Manchester United and their only appearance in a final was in 1984, when they were defeated by Liverpool, who join them in Friday's semi-final draw after knocking out Manchester City.</p>
<p class="title">AS Roma pulled off one of the great Champions League comebacks by knocking Barcelona out with a remarkable 3-0 win in their quarter-final second leg on Tuesday, overcoming a 4-1 deficit from the first leg to reach the last four on away goals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roma's Kostas Manolas headed the decisive third goal in the 82nd minute, putting the Italians in the semi-finals for the first time since they reached the European Cup final in 1984 and compensating for his own goal in the first leg at the Nou Camp.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roma forward Edin Dzeko had opened the scoring when he beat the offside trap and latched onto a perfectly weighted through ball from Daniele De Rossi to score in the sixth minute, lifting the hopes of the boisterous home fans in the Olympic Stadium.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Captain De Rossi converted a penalty in the 58th for the hosts after Dzeko was fouled by Gerard Pique, giving Roma a deserved second goal after Dzeko and his Czech strike partner Patrik Schick missed two clear chances each before the break.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barca fielded the team that thrashed Roma in the first leg with the help of two own goals and were overwhelming favourites to go through but the five-times European champions barely got a foothold in the game after falling behind to Dzeko's opener.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The visitors' Sergi Roberto squandered the first chance of the game but after that Barcelona struggled to respond to Roma's constant waves of attacks until substitute Ousmane Dembele whistled a long-range shot just over the bar in added time.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The runaway La Liga leaders had not lost in the Champions League this term until visiting Rome but slumped out at the quarter-final stage for the third year in a row after being eliminated by Juventus last season and Atletico Madrid in 2016.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It was a reversal of fortune for Barcelona who last term pulled off the greatest comeback in Champions League history by overcoming a 4-0 loss to Paris St Germain, becoming only the second team after Deportivo La Coruna in 2004 to progress after losing the first leg by at least a three-goal deficit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roma had lost their last two quarter-final ties to Manchester United and their only appearance in a final was in 1984, when they were defeated by Liverpool, who join them in Friday's semi-final draw after knocking out Manchester City.</p>
