UCL: PSG Sink Bayer Leverkusen on Home Soil; Manchester City lose 0-2 to FC Barcelona at Etihad Stadium
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice to leave Paris Saint-Germain on course for the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals after their 4-0 win at ten-man Bayer 
Leverkusen in Tuesday’s last 16, first-leg clash. Leverkusen, second only to Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, suffered their third straight home defeat as Laurent Blanc’s PSG were rarely troubled at the BayArena with Ibrahimovic. Blaise Matuidi put PSG ahead with barely two minutes gone before Ibrahimovic netted a penalty, then added a second to make it 3-0 at the break. Bayer were reduced to ten men when Ibrahimovic’s marker Emir Spahic was sent off for a second yellow, and the subsequent red, for the final half an hour. Yohan Cabaye replaced Ibrahimovic in the second half to score PSG’s fourth just before the final whistle. 32-year-old Ibrahimovic is now the competition’s top-scorer with ten goals in six Champions League games this season after the Swedish star also netted four in the 5-0 rout of RSC Anderlecht in Belgium last October. Meanwhile, a Lionel Messi penalty and a late Dani Alves strike gave Barcelona a 2-0 win over Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium. The Knockout-phase debutants matched Barcelona in the first half at the Etihad Stadium, but the game changed early in the second period when Martin Demichelis was sent off following a last-man foul on Messi that occurred right on the edge of the box. The Argentinian international scored from the ensuing penalty in the 54th minute, taking his tally of goals in this season’s competition to seven. Despite being a man down, City continued to threaten, but in the final minute Alves ran through to score a pass from Neymar, tucking the ball between Hart’s legs in the final minute to further tighten the Catalans’ grip on the tie, leaving Barcelona firmly in the driving seat ahead of the return leg on March 12.
