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Barcelona tipped for Champions League glory after AC Milan turn around

Image: Villa: Netted the crucial third goal for Barcelona

Barcelona can go on to win the Champions League after their incredible comeback against AC Milan, Phil Thompson told Sky Sports.

Schalke 2-3 Galatasaray (3-4)

In the night's other Champions League round of 16 second leg, Turkey's Galatasaray won an intriguing battle with Schalke. The German side went ahead through Roman Neustadter to move 2-1 up on aggregate, but Hamit Altintop levelled the tie against his former club before Burak Yilmaz added a second for the visitors moments later. Schalke's Michel Bastos made it 2-2 but, with away goals coming into play and the hosts needing to push forward, sub Umut Bulut capitalised in stoppage time to put Galatasaray into the last eight for the first time since 2001. Alan McInally: Schalke are really unlucky and they put so much into the second half but that little spell in the first half when they conceded the two goals cost them. They put on a brilliant performance in the second half and I thought at one point they were going to make it. But after they scored their first they didn't really manage to command the next 10-15 minutes and control the game and Galatasaray are dangerous, they have players who can hurt you and that's what they did. A lot of teams won't want to play Galatasaray after what we've seen here. They've taken a chance on players such as Didier Drogba and Wesley Sneijder - who can unlock doors - and it's going well for them. A lot of teams might seriously think 'we don't want Galatasaray' because it's not an easy place to go. Hamann: They weren't the two most fancied teams left in the competition but what a show they put on; what fantastic games both legs have been - they were tremendous to watch and a great advert for the Champions League. I thought Schalke would have enough but I just feel the loss of the injured Klaas-Jan Huntelaar may have cost them the tie because they created numerous openings but lacked the cutting edge, which Galatasaray had. In the end that was probably the difference between the two sides.

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