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Barcelona's hopes of staging another sensational Champions League comeback fell flat against a hardened Juventus side, who held the Catalans to a 0-0 draw at the Nou Camp to reach the semi-finals 3-0 on aggregate.
The Italian champions barely gave Barcelona a glimmer of hope of repeating its historic turnaround against Paris St Germain in the last 16 and protected their healthy advantage from the first leg by starving the hosts of space and clear sights of goal.
Lionel Messi came closest to giving Barcelona a route back into the contest with four strikes at goal but failed to hit the target with any of them and frequently came up short against Juventus's intimidating centre-back pairing of Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci.
Twice European champion Juventus lacked the spark and power of its thrilling first-leg victory in Turin, but there was rarely any doubt it would exact revenge for its defeat to Barcelona in the 2015 Champions League final by reaching a 12th semi-final.
Meanwhile, Kylian Mbappe and Radamel Falcao struck early as AS Monaco reached the semi-finals with a 3-1 home win over Borussia Dortmund to seal a 6-3 aggregate victory.
French prodigy Mbappe and Colombia striker Falcao scored in the third and 17th minutes before Marco Reus gave the visitors hope with a 48th-minute goal, only for substitute Valere Germain to wrap up the win for the French side nine minutes from time.
Monaco joined Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Juventus in the last four of Europe's premier cub competition.
UEFA said the kick-off was delayed by five minutes after the German team arrived late at the Louis-II stadium due to traffic problems.
Dortmund said on its Twitter feed that the bus had been held up by police at their hotel for 20 minutes.
The incident occurred a week after the first leg was postponed by 24 hours after the Borussia team bus was attacked with explosives on its way to the stadium.
"The departure of the bus was scheduled for 19:15 so everybody was in the bus at that time and police were there to escort us to the stadium," Dortmund manager Thomas Tuchel said.
"But after 16 or 17 minutes nothing had happened and we asked why we were not moving. We were told that it was for security reasons. Eight days after what happened, it was the worst thing that could happen to us."
Monaco fans unveiled a 'You'll Never Walk Alone' banner, with the German team's anthem, which they share with Liverpool and Celtic, before kick-off.
Reuters
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