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胡晨璇：
Barcelona makes history with 6-1 comeback win over PSG
Barcelona completed the biggest comeback in Champions League history by beating Paris Saint-Germain 6-1 to reach the quarterfinals on Wednesday, scoring the decisive goal of a 6-5 victory on aggregate in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
With Neymar on inspired form, Barcelona scored three times from the 88th minute. Sergi Roberto's dramatic late goal set up by Neymar sent the Nou Camp fans wild and made their team the first to overturn a 4-0 first-leg defeat since the Champions League format started in the 1992-93 season.
PSG seemed certain to go through after EdinsonCavani scored a valuable away goal following Barcelona's opening salvo of three goals, which included a Lionel Messi penalty.
Barcelona needed three more goals to advance, and the feat seemed impossible even after Neymar found the net with a free kick in the 88th minute.
But the Brazil striker converted a penalty in the 90th and then followed up with a chipped pass for substitute Roberto to steer the ball beyond goalkeeper Kevin Trapp in injury time.
"This is the best match of my career," Neymar said. "It was difficult after the match in Paris. For the past week I have been crazy to play this match, and we have made history.
"I just told Sergi Roberto to get in the area, that he would score a goal." The winner sent Barcelona's bench flooding onto the pitch as the stadium celebrated the club's 10th consecutive appearance in the quarterfinals.
Coach Luis Enrique, who announced he would leave the club this summer, embraced Neymar and any other player or staff member within reach.
"What defines this victory is faith, the faith of my players, the faith of our fans. No child or adult here at Camp Nou will forget this night," Luis Enrique said. "I have never seen a better communion between team and supporters. We overran them, they didn't cross midfield."
Barcelona played with all the intensity that PSG was lacking for the entire match, and didn't need its trademark passing attacks to get its first three goals.
Defender LayvinKurzawa was at fault for Barcelona's second goal in the 40th, when he turned Andres Iniesta's back-heeled flick into his own net and ignited the 96,000-plus crowd.
Another PSG defender, right back Thomas Meunier, was behind Messi's penalty in the 50th after he clumsily thrust his shoulder into Neymar's legs while trying to recover his position in the box.
Emery finally ordered his players briefly forward.
That was when Cavani stepped in for French champions, rifling in Kurzawa's headed pass in the 62nd moments after he had hit the post in the visitors' only threats.
But Barcelona never stopped pressing, despite needing three goals.
And Neymar led the way, pulling off one of the most remarkable sequences seen at the ground of the five-time champions.
He struck first with a curling free kick from the left flank that slipped inside Trapp's near post.
Next, he took responsibility for converting the spot kick after Suarez was shouldered down by Marquinhos in the box.
The best was saved for last, when his pass was lofted over the defense and fell for Roberto to stretch out far enough and turn the ball into the net.
"I just threw myself forward," said Roberto, who went on in the 76th minute.
"After the loss in Paris, we were all very down. But this team, if there is something it has proven, it's that it is made for nights like this."
Barcelona had set a precedent in the 2012-13 season's Round of 16 when it became the first team to erase a 2-0 away leg loss by roaring back to beat AC Milan 4-0.
Nothing, however, compared to the challenge faced against PSG, a side that hadn't lost in 16 matches overall and completely outplayed Barcelona during the first leg in Paris.
It was a demoralizing end for PSG. The French side was on the verge of avenging quarterfinal exits to Barcelona in 2013 and 2015 and earning an elusive marquee victory that its Qatari owners were longing for.
Instead, it must remain in the second-tier of talented but ultimately flawed European teams.
"Three weeks after winning 4-0, we lose 6-1. That's very, very hard to accept," said PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
柯长霖：
Dearth of young diplomatic talent in Moscow sparks concern
According to the law, Yuri Ushakov must step aside on Monday. That is the day Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy adviser turns 70 — the latest possible retirement age for government officials. Recent talk among Russian diplomats has been of his likely successor. Andrei Denisov, ambassador to China? Or perhaps Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin’s spokesman?
Now the Kremlin has gone silent. “Expect him to stay at least another year. As long as things are so uncertain with regard to Russia-US relations, Putin will not let him go,” says Valery Solovei, a professor at MGIMO, the university where the country’s diplomats are trained.
The Kremlin’s hesitation over MrUshakov throws a spotlight on the bureaucracy that is steering Moscow through its worst stand-off with the west since the cold war and engineering the push to restore Russia’s global power status. It is an apparatus built under the Soviet Union and staffed by people whose skills were honed in the Soviet era.
Russian diplomatic insiders attribute Moscow’s growing influence not only to Mr Putin’s sharp sense for an opportunity but to its well-oiled and highly experienced diplomatic machine.
Since 2014, Russia has annexed Crimea and stoked separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine; changed the course of Syria’s civil war with military intervention; forced its way into negotiations in Libya and Afghanistan; moved to strengthen ties across Asia, and deepened links with populists in the west.
“The main reason our foreign policy has been successful recently is the weakness of the west, and our president has been very good at deciding quickly to move in wherever there is a vacuum,” said Veniamin Popov, a former ambassador to Yemen, Libya and Tunisia. “And we are able to move that quickly because our diplomats were educated very well in the Soviet Union, they have accumulated unrivalled experience, and we have stability on the team.”
But however smooth the machine, it will need renewal — and some at home and abroad wonder how prepared Moscow is.
“That is a big problem we face now: There is a generational break,” says Mr Popov. In the years after the Soviet Union dissolved, the diplomatic service struggled to retain mid-ranking staff or attract the young as jobs in banking and elsewhere in the private sector offered better salaries.
葛菡琳：
Bicycle-sharing companies have put more than 200,000 yellow and orange bicycles into service in Beijing in the past month. To use a bike for 1 yuan ($0.15) per hour, you have to download the app of any of the companies, pay a few hundred yuan as refundable deposit, and scan the code on a bike to unlock or lock it.
The bikes are popular among commuters, many of whom use them to cover the distance between subway stations or bus stops and office or home. But the lack of bicycle parking lots－most of which have made way for car parking lots－poses a challenge to cyclists.
The disorderly parking of such bikes at street corners has created a problem for chengguan, urban administrative officers, who are not enough in numbers to manage the cyclists and tell them to park the bikes at the right place. Chengguan in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, confiscated hundreds of such bikes in November because they were "illegally encroaching upon public place". But bike-sharing remains popular in Chengdu three months later.
Local governments in Beijing, Shenzhen and Nanjing are seeking public opinions to draft rules to regulate the bike-sharing business while other cities wait to learn from the first-tier cities' experiences. Thankfully, the authorities in the first-tier cities have not taken steps as extreme as the Chengdu chengguan.
The bike-sharing business is environment friendly and supplements the urban public transport system. The new business model, which has its roots in mobile internet apps, is not only an innovative but also a symbolic representation of the rise in public awareness about a greener lifestyle.
It is also in line with the government's philosophy of green, sharing and innovative development. Unlike the car-hailing service, which faces resistance because it affects the taxi industry's interests and increases traffic problems, the bike-sharing business deserves greater government support.
