Match Day 2: 1993/1994 Paris St Germain 0 1993/1994 Barcelona 2

1993/1994 Paris St Germain 0          1993/1994 Barcelona  2
                                                           (Stoichkov 36', Stoichkov 42')


The first leg of this tie had been a pulsating 2-2 draw at the Nou Camp with Paris twice shocking the Dream Team on the break. They entered the second leg needing only a low score draw to advance on away goals and with history on their side to a degree - the post-Athens defeat Barcelona side of 1995 had lost 1-0 against PSG with very close to the same line ups.

Paris should have gone ahead as early as the 13th minute when a Ronald Koeman handball gifted them a penalty. However Rai crashed the shot off the bar and over.

Barcelona pushed forward and Lama made his first save from Guardiola on 24 minutes, shortly before 3 minutes later another bullocking run from George Weah put Rai into a good position but Zubizarreta saved well. The home side threatened again on the half hour with a dangerous cross by Colleter was cut out by Koeman.

On 36 minutes Barcelona took control. A flowing move put Beguiristain into the box. His pullback to Bakero was brilliantly saved by Lama but the ball dropped to Stoichkov who could not miss and didn't. Just six minutes later, the Bulgarian maestro made the tie safe with his second. It was another long passage of crisp passing that eventually rolled the ball into Stoichkov's path on the edge of the box and he drove a venomous low shot at an angle under Lama's body and into the far corner of the net.

After the initial flurry of PSG chances, the half ended with Barcelona enjoying 67% of possession and having cancelled out the two away goals, in a commanding lead. There was no hubristic meltdown in the second half. Laudrup came on just before the hour but again had little impact. Weah should have halved the deficit shortly after when again his power had the Barcelona defense in trouble. His initial shot was parried by Zubizarreta but Weah could only steer the rebound inches wide.

PSG threw on more forwards as time ran down. Xavier Gravelaine forced another good save from the Barcelona keeper on 88 minutes but time ran down with Barcelona never looking too troubled.