Min.60 30-27 (final and victory for Barça)Barça achieves an extraordinary victory against another of the great candidates for the title, PSG, and continues to lead group B with eight points and better goal difference compared to Kielce and Veszprem.
Min. 59 29-26Barça secured the victory with another goal from Makuc 1’15 “from the end of the match.
Min. 58 28-26Luka Karabatic’s goal and PSG still have options.
Min. 58 28-25Barça’s great defense, Gonzalo’s 16th stop and a goal by Makuc that brings victory closer to the Barça side.
Min. 56 27-25Goal by Dika Mem, facilitated by a good move from Makuc.
Min. 56 26-25Gonzalo touches Steins’ shot, but finally enters his goal.
Min. 55 26-24Penalty by Aleix Gómez. The Barça moves between a goal and two of advantage. The last details will decide the fate of the match.
Min. 54 25-23Gonzalo save and Janc goal.
Min. 53 24-23Hansen scores a goal for the squad with the threat of the passive and Remili puts PSG within a single goal. Carlos Ortega’s time out.
Min. 50 24-21Richardson’s first goal. Barça enters the last 10 minutes with three rental goals, but the game is wide open.
Min. 49 23-20Gonzalo adds his 14th stop defending in inferiority and third goal followed by Mem that gives Barça its maximum advantage again, three goals, the same as 5-2 in minute 12.
Min. 48 22-20Goal by Prandi, who hurts after a fortuitous blow to the face with Petrus, but Dika Mem gets her second target in a row. Exclusion to Petrus.
Min. 47 21-19Kristopans surpasses Gonzalo, but Dika Mem keeps Barça two up.
Min. 46 20-18Vaselina de Fàbregas and Barça return the partial 3-0 to PSG.
Min. 45 19-18Janc and Mem once again put Barça ahead. Dika Mem angrily celebrates the goal.
Min. 43 17-18Prandi’s second consecutive goal, a partial 0-3 for PSG thanks to the saves by Gérard, who stopped Barça’s best minutes with his interventions.
Min. 42 17-17The goalkeepers’ duel is spectacular, with 13 saves each, and Prandi tied the game on a counterattack.
Min. 40 17-16Gérard prevents Barça from getting three up and Steins puts PSG back at Barça’s neck.
Min. 38 17-15After colliding with Gérard a couple of times, N’Guessan scores two goals in a row and puts Barça up two after a long time. Raúl González asks for his third and last time-out, a risky decision because there is still a lot of game to go.
Min. 36 15-15First goal by former Barça player Nikola Karabatic. The game gains more speed compared to the first half.
Min. 35 15-14The goalkeeper duel presides over the game, and 10 stops for both Gonzalo and Gérard. Goal against Ariño.
Min. 33 14-14Gonzalo’s ninth stop to a point-blank shot from Syprzak, but Gérard responds in the other area against N’Guessan.
Min. 32 14-14N’Guessan beats Gérard with a cross shot.
21:39SECOND PART
Min. 30 13-13 (rest)Tables at halftime after the last goals of Fernández and Kounkoud. First part matched with a leading role for the defenders and the goalkeepers, Gonzalo and Gérard, who trace their figures at halftime: 8 saves and 38% correct.
Min. 28 12-11Gonzalo saves against a powerful shot from Prandi and Janc scores after a quick transition from Barça.
Min. 26 11-11PSG closes the gaps well, but Ali Zein scores his first goal from a difficult position.
Min. 25 10-11Gonzalo saves, but Kristopans picks up the rejection and surpasses the Barça captain. Carlos Ortega’s time out.
Min. 24 10-10Aleix restores equality with his second penalty.
Min. 23 9-10Prandi and Hansen put PSG ahead after another stop by Gérard to Fernández. The goalkeeper then hinders the Barça winger when it comes to getting up and receives the whistles of the Palau.
Min. 22 9-8New ball steal from Barça and this time Ángel Fernández beats Gérard on the counter.
Min. 22 8-8New stops for Gonzalo and Gérard. Time out of Raúl González, the Spanish PSG coach.
Min. 20 8-8Second exclusion to Frade, dangerous for him and for Barça. The Catalans recover the ball, but Gérard stops Ángel Fernández’s shot on the counterattack.
Min. 19 8-8Ortega moves the bench and Langaro responds with his first goal with a great long shot. Richardson gives Makuc minutes of rest playing as center-back.
Min. 18 7-8Hansen’s fourth goal, the third from a penalty without failure.
Min. 16 7-7Mikkel Hansen’s third goal, one of the most privileged arms in world handball. The Dane will leave PSG in 2022 after 10 seasons to return to his country, Aalborg.
Min. 16 7-6Hansen penalty and Dika Mem’s first goal after his three previous shots to the wood. Exclusion to Frade.
Min. 15 6-5Makuc gives Barça air and ends with the partial 0-3 favorable to PSG.
Min. 15 5-5Barça’s fifth suit, this time from N’Guessan, and Kristopans, the tallest player in the Champions League at 2.15 meters tall, tied the game.
Min. 14 5-4PSG counterattack signed by Luc Steins.
Min. 13 5-3Very rigorous exclusion of N’Guessan and a penalty goal from Mikkel Hansen, one of the best specialists in the world from seven meters.
Min. 12 5-2Barça’s fourth stick, this time from Ariño, but Fàbregas picks up the rejection and scores his third goal.
Min. 11 4-2First exclusion of the match for Remili, but N’Guessan throws his pitch high on the first play in superiority. Lack of aim in both areas at the moment.
Min. 9 4-2Aleix Gómez scores his first penalty goal and, after a ball steal from Barça, Gérard prevents Ariño from making it 5-2 on the scoreboard.
Min. 7 3-2Barça’s first advantage after N’Guessan’s goal. Gonzalo already has three saves and Dika Mem, three shots to the sticks.
Min. 6 2-2Remili and Fàbregas are once again the scorers for both teams. Equality in the early stages of the game.
Min. 4 1-1Fàbregas immediately answers Remili’s initial goal.
Min. 3 0-0High shot by Karabatic and shot to the post by Dika Mem. No goals in the first three minutes of the match.
Min. 1 0-0The match begins at the Palau with referees by the Germans Robert Schulze and Tobias Tönnies. Gonzalo, Makuc, Mem, N’Guessan, Fàbregas, Aleix and Ariño come out as the starting team in attack. Ali Zein comes out on defense this time in place of Petrus, usually the lynchpin behind.
20:44FIRST PART
20:43BARÇA-PSG
20:41Presentation of the teams at the Palau, which receives with special applause the three former Barça players who now play for PSG, Kamil Syprzak, Mikkel Hansen and, above all, Nikola Karabatic, whose leadership was fundamental in the conquest of the 2015 Champions League, just before his departure to Paris.
20:37The Catalans have six victories and a single defeat against PSG, which is still pursuing its first Champions League despite having spent several years with the largest budget: 17.8 million euros this season. Steins, Prandi, Kristopans, Ntanzi, Grebille, Keita and Kounkoud complete the squad led by Raúl González. Luka Cindric is the only Barça casualty, covered by Artur Parera.
20:36The Games demanded an extra effort from the majority of Barça and PSG players. Both teams have already lost at Veszprem: the Parisians 34-31 and the Catalans 29-28. The French team also drew at the Flensburg court (27-27), but is also in the fight for the first two places that will give direct access to the quarterfinals.
20:35Mikkel Hansen and Henrik Toft Hansen, silver with Denmark, also play in Paris, like Ferran Solé, bronze with Spain along with Gonzalo Pérez de Vargas, Aleix Gómez and Ángel Fernández, the other Barça players who returned from Japan with a medal. In total, seven Olympic medalists from Barça and eight from PSG, as well as another handful of handball figures, ensure today a great show for the best match of the 5th European day.
20:35Between the two teams, the Palau will bring together up to 15 medalists in Tokyo, nine of them champions with France, four from Barça –Ludovic Fàbregas, Dika Mem, Melvyn Richardson, Tim N’Guessan– and five from PSG: Nikola and Luka Karabatic, Nedim Remili , Vincent Gérard and Yann Genty. If any Barça-PSG is already a major Champions League match, this Thursday the event acquires an even more intense Olympic-level tone due to the accumulation of stars that shone last summer at the Games.
20:23Handball Barça receives Paris Saint-Germain from 8:45 pm to play another great Champions League match corresponding to the 5th day of the best club tournament in the world. The Catalans are forced to win to continue as leaders after the victories of Kielce over Porto (39-33) and Telekom Veszprem against SG Flensburg (28-23).