Champions League Last 8: Barcelona Thrash Manchester United 3-0 To Reach First Semi-finals In Four Years

Philippe Coutinho curls a 20-yard shot home the third goal 

Barcelona took a cruise through their Champions League second-leg tie with Manchester United and clinically settled the ousting of the English side by 3-0 (aggr. 4-0) at Nou Camp. 

Trailing by 1-0, United manager Solksjear was banking on his team's capabilities to stage a comeback like they did against Paris St-Germain, but that wouldn't workout with Barcelona with Lionel Messi scoring a brace to leave United gasping to stay in the competition. 

Instead of a comeback, what United got at Nou Camp was sizzling finishes from Messi and former Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho and those goals sent them packing. 

The Argentine curled a superb right footed shot from 20 yards through for the opening goal and four minutes later doubled it after David Gea poorly let in his weak shot. 

Meanwhile, United's Marcus Rashford had attempted to open the scoring early in the first half but his shot caught the bar. 

Whilst United were unable to get a goal, Philippe settled the game with curled shot for a game decider and third game in 61th minutes. 

United did threatened to want to get a goal but Alexis Sanchez's header could not go past goalkeeper Marc Andre. 

Barcelona will be making their first semi-finals appearance since 2014/15 and will face either Liverpool or FC Porto.