Barcelona Vs Roma First Leg

Two Roma own goals help Barcelona to home victory in first leg

A pair of own goals helped Barcelona take a major step toward the Champions League semifinals with a 4-1 win over Roma at the Camp Nou on Wednesday.
Gerard Pique and Luis Suarez added second-half goals either side of Edin Dzeko's response for Roma as Barcelona grabbed the advantage after the first leg of the quarterfinal.
 This match was an amazing match as Roma scored two own goals in order to defence. 
 A Diego Perotti cross caused panic in the Barcelona defence but Jordi Alba was able to clear with Florenzi lurking.Roma were closing down Lionel Messi in numbers but still the Argentinian engineered a chance in the 11th minute, turning and firing in a shot that Alisson pushed away.
But they doubled their lead 10 minutes after the break when Messi and Rakitic engineered a short corner and the Croatian sent in a cross. Umtiti's shot hit a post but the rebound went in off Manolas
Then at last Saurez scored the goal to lead 4-1 in 1st leg. Lets see what will happen in next leg. 
Summary
                Barcelona vs Roma :- 4-1 
De Rossi  38' (og)               E. Dzeko 80'
K Manolas 55' (og)
Pique  59'
Luis Saurez 87' 

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