Barca Go Through To Semifinals Despite Serhou Guirassy Treble

Serhou Guirassy and Borussia Dortmund did what no else has been able to in 2025 — they beat FC Barcelona. It still wasn't enough to reach the Champions League semifinals.

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Serhou Guirassy's instinctive hat-trick in a 3-1 victory was not enough for Borussia Dortmund to seal a memorable comeback as Barcelona FC progressed to the last four for the first time since 2019 despite sustaining their first defeat across all competitions of 2025.

Dortmund's win over Barcelona — the Spanish club's first defeat of any sort since December last year — was not enough to prevent a 3-5 aggregate loss.

After being swept aside 4-0 in the first leg of the quarterfinal, Dortmund had nothing to lose Tuesday and attacked Barcelona from the start, leaving the visitors off-balance.

It was an unusually quiet game for Barcelona's prolific forwards Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski, who had 12 and 11 Champions League goals respectively this season. The closest either came to scoring was a tame shot by Raphinha at Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Kobel.

Having already taken the lead through an early penalty, Dortmund went 2-0 up just after the break before Barca pulled one back courtesy of an own goal.