What on earth have we witnessed? One of the greatest individual performances of all time, one of the most fascinating games of the modern era, and the most ridiculous 7 minutes of football we will likely ever experience.

Never write off Barcelona – we’ve known this for years now, but Paris Saint-Germain’s 4-0 thrashing of the Catalans in France planted doubts in the minds of football fans worldwide.

Was this the end of Barça as we know it? The symbolic closing of an era which brought unprecedented success to the Nou Camp, and brought us some of the greatest performances in football history? Not to mention the mesmerising talents of Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta, among many others.

Surely they couldn’t come back from that 4-0 humiliation? Let alone be the first team in the Champions League era to turn around such a result? Well, hate to say we told you so but:

You heard it here first: Barça to go through tonight, 6-1 victors on the night #FCBPSG#ucl#Barca — Football Pie (@WainoAndMac) March 8, 2017

All boasting aside though, this was a truly special night. Much was made about the supposed lack of fight in this Barça side, but the way in which they pressed their Parisian counterparts so high up the pitch from the word go was a sight to behold.

Rarely do you see football this radical being played at Champions League level. Rarely do the circumstances allow for it. Rarely does a player grab the game in the superhuman way that Neymar did in those final ten minutes.

But this was perfect timing. Just weeks after Luis Enrique looked like a dead man walking, his side have been re-galvanised. Since he announced he would be resigning from the club a week ago, Barça have played three, won three, and scored 17, all at the Nou Camp. This team, which has already achieved everything there is to achieve, have realised they have something to fight for again – legacy.

As anyone involved with Barcelona during the Pep years will tell you, their dramatic late win over Chelsea in the Champions League semis in 2009 was the defining moment of Guardiola’s time at the helm. Iniesta’s seminal goal teed up the first of two match-ups between him and Sir Alex Ferguson in the final. As well all know, he won them both, and turned this talented group of players into all-time legends.

Depending on how the rest of this season pans out, Wednesday 8th March could be of similar significance for this particular Barça side. Could they go on to achieve the kind of success of that specific era? Certainly not, but the circumstances are completely different.

It is without doubt that this current team are not on the same level that they once were, especially when you take ‘MSN’ out of the equation. But at this moment in time, they are top of La Liga, have an easily winnable Copa Del Rey final to contest, and are back in the hunt for the Champions League.

If they could pull it off, it would be Enrique’s second treble in three seasons, and the club’s third in eight. An era of ridiculous feats for this special sporting institution would be taken to an insurmountable level. And it is probably the last time that this particular team could do it.

But enough with the speculation – let’s just bask in the moment. No matter how the rest of this season goes for the Blaugrana, we can always look back to this night. It may not have been a final, but it probably beats Manchester United in 1999 and Liverpool in 2005 for sheer craziness. And Neymar – my word. A man possessed in those final moments, up there with any performance by anyone ever.

We’ll be telling the grandkids about this one.

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