With his goal completing the 6-1 victory, all that came beforehand was shoved into irrelevance.
However, in every good story, there is the one person who without their interference, the glory could not take place. The difference in this tale was that to achieve their goal, Barcelona had to do something underhanded to gain the advantage.
That was encapsulated in Luis Suarez's blatant dive in the 90th minute.
After his fellow Uruguayan teammate, Edinson Cavani had given Paris Saint-Germain a vital goal, the Catalan giants looked dejected. They began to strop, throwing themselves around and lunging in, resorting to desperate methods to find some kind of route back into the game.
Even when Neymar swung in his pinpoint free-kick with just over two minutes of regular time, they still didn’t believe they could do it. Neither did the Camp Nou, that rose in noise briefly in appreciation of the Brazilian's excellence but not enough to rouse a final push.
What did flip the switch was Suarez's blatant conning of the referee. Having already been booked for a similar dive five minutes before, this time the official bowed under the pressure of the storyline and gifted Barcelona their route back into a tie that was all but dead.
However, in every good story, there is the one person who without their interference, the glory could not take place. The difference in this tale was that to achieve their goal, Barcelona had to do something underhanded to gain the advantage.
That was encapsulated in Luis Suarez's blatant dive in the 90th minute.
After his fellow Uruguayan teammate, Edinson Cavani had given Paris Saint-Germain a vital goal, the Catalan giants looked dejected. They began to strop, throwing themselves around and lunging in, resorting to desperate methods to find some kind of route back into the game.
Even when Neymar swung in his pinpoint free-kick with just over two minutes of regular time, they still didn’t believe they could do it. Neither did the Camp Nou, that rose in noise briefly in appreciation of the Brazilian's excellence but not enough to rouse a final push.
What did flip the switch was Suarez's blatant conning of the referee. Having already been booked for a similar dive five minutes before, this time the official bowed under the pressure of the storyline and gifted Barcelona their route back into a tie that was all but dead.
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