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Dortmund defeat highlights Pedri’s importance to Barcelona

When almost every player in a Barcelona shirt has been so bad, it’s difficult to know where to even begin when objectively looking back over a game.

By the half-time whistle in Dortmund, the hosts had engineered 10 shots (seven on target) compared to one from the visitors (off target).

Frankly, and disappointingly from a Barca perspective, there was only one team in it for the vast majority of this Champions League quarter-final second-leg tie.

A 4-0 first-leg win had evidently brainwashed the Catalans into believing that they already had one foot in the semi-final because how else do you explain a performance that mirrored those against Roma and Liverpool from years back?