Xavi Blames Referee Kovacs For Barca's Champions League Exit

Barcelona were dumped out of the competition on Tuesday night following a 4-1 defeat to Paris Saint Germain.

It wrapped a 6-4 aggregate victory for the French side, who went into the trailing 2-3 from the first leg.

With Barcelona one up in the second leg, Romanian referee Kovacs sent off Ronald Araujo for a last-man challenge on Bradley Barcola.

PSG took full advantage as old Barcelona boy Ousmane Dembele equalised before second half goals from Vitinha and Kylian Mbappe's brace put Luis Enrique's side through.

Xavi himself was sent off for lashing out in the second half.

"We are annoyed," Xavi said after the game.

"The red card marked the tie. We were well organised 11 vs. 11. It completely changed everything. For me, it's too much to send [Araújo] off there.

"The referee was really bad. I told him, he was a disaster. He killed the tie. I don't like speaking about referees but it has to be said. I don't understand it.

"It's not good going down to 10 players and from that point on it's another game. For as much as we speak [about the match], the red card marks everything."

Barcelona are next in action against Real Madrid in La Liga this weekend.