PSG ousts Liverpool in Champions League

(UPDATE) PARIS — Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) held their nerve to beat Liverpool, 4-1, on penalties and reach the Champions League quarterfinals on Tuesday after their tie finished one-apiece on aggregate, while Bayern Munich saw off Bayer Leverkusen to complete a 5-0 win over both legs.

Lamine Yamal and Raphinha fired Barcelona into the next round as the Catalans bested Benfica, 3-1, and Inter Milan booked a last-eight meeting with Bayern by seeing off Feyenoord, 2-1.

At Anfield, Ousmane Dembele netted the only goal of the night as PSG bounced back from Liverpool's late winner last week to force the tie to extra-time and penalties.

Maligned for his weak attempted save at the Parc des Princes from Harvey Elliott's strike, Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma produced two excellent saves in the penalty shoot-out to send the French champions into the last eight.

Donnarumma plunged first to his left to deny Darwin Nunez, before going low the other side to deny Curtis Jones, with his teammates dispatching all of their penalties.

"It was a great performance. We really deserved to go through over the two legs, hands down," PSG captain Marquinhos told Canal Plus.

The hosts dominated the opening exchanges but could not make their chances count, much like PSG in last week's return fixture.

Dembele poked home in the 12th minute after he reacted quickest to Ibrahima Konate's attempt to clear a PSG counterattack in the Liverpool penalty box.

Jarell Quansah hit the post with a header in the second half, but PSG held firm under Liverpool pressure to claim the second leg 1-0.

The tie rumbled inevitably toward penalties and after Donnarumma's heroics, Desire Doue slammed home the decisive penalty to spark wild celebrations in the visitors' end.

"It was the best game of football I have ever been involved in," Arne Slot told Amazon Prime.

"It was an incredible performance, especially if you compare it with last week. We were creating chances and then we were 1-0 down. We ran out of luck after last week."

PSG will play either Aston Villa or Club Brugge in the next stage.

Harry Kane inspired Bayern to a 2-0 win at the home of German rivals Leverkusen.

The England captain scored and assisted at the BayArena, adding to his two goals from the comprehensive 3-0 first-leg victory in Munich.