Easy does it as Barcelona sweep aside Paris Saint-Germain

Barcelona cruised into their seventh Champions League semi-final in eight years as a double from Neymar handed them a 2-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain to seal a 5-1 aggregate victory on Tuesday.

Just as in last week’s first leg in Paris, the Brazilian opened the scoring after a sensational assist from Andres Iniesta.

Neymar then capitalised on some shoddy defending to head home his 30th goal of the season from Dani Alves’ cross.

Barca will now take their place alongside Bayern Munich in Friday’s draw for the last four, the ties to be played next month.

“I am very happy with the season I am having and we need to continue like this to achieve our objectives. We need to keep going and get to the final,” Neymar said. “In my first goal Iniesta did everything. All I had to do was dribble past the goalkeeper and score.”

Only once in European Cup history had a side come back from losing the first leg at home 3-1 and there was little doubt about the outcome as Barca dominated proceedings from the off.

The opener arrived on 14 minutes as Iniesta collected the ball inside his own half, spun past three PSG challenges and then rolled the ball through to Neymar, who calmly rounded Salvatore Sirigu before slotting home.