NewsPSG beat Barcelona 4‑2 in Paris as Barça suffer their first defeat of the season
Lamine Yamal levelled at 2‑2 in the 79th minute. Vitinha and Fabián Ruiz scored in the next seven minutes, and Barcelona's 3 a.m. post came back to haunt them.
Paris Saint-Germain beat Barcelona 4-2 at the Parc des Princes in the Champions League on Tuesday night, 20 October. It was Barcelona's first defeat of the season.
Doué gave PSG the lead in the 38th minute. Xavi Espart equalised for Barcelona in the 55th, and Hernández put PSG back in front in the 72nd. Lamine Yamal made it 2-2 in the 79th minute, but Vitinha restored the lead two minutes later and Fabián Ruiz added a fourth in the 86th.
Ferran Torres, whom Barcelona sold to PSG in mid-August for about €50 million, came on after 20 minutes for the injured Dembélé. Around the 71st minute he had a clear chance against his old club and hit the post.
"We are not afraid"
At 3 a.m. Accra time on matchday, Barcelona's official X account posted a video with the caption "We are not afraid." By the evening it had almost six million views and more than 4,000 replies, many of them from Barcelona's own fans telling the club not to post such things before a game.
The club's posts during the match told the story on their own. Espart's equaliser got capital letters and a row of exclamation marks. PSG's second goal got "Goal PSG. Hernández." When Yamal scored, the account posted "OMG LAMINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" at 8:42 p.m. and "Let's goooooooooooooo" 56 seconds later. Thirty-five seconds after that came "Vitinha scores." Then "Goal Fabián."
PSG's English account went the other way. At 2-2 it posted "Goal. Barcelona. 2-2. Lamine Yamal." At full time it was all capitals: "HOW ABOUT THAT."
Full time
Barcelona's full-time post read "Full time. We move on." Fans in the replies asked where exactly the club was moving to, while others accepted the first loss of the season and gave PSG credit. Three minutes after full time, fans went back to the 3 a.m. post to ask for an update.
Barcelona's next big test was El Clásico against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou on Sunday, 25 October, in LaLiga matchday 10.
Watch the keyboard, not the scoreboard. A club that posts "We are not afraid" at three in the morning should write its captions after the match.
- Sky Sports live blog: PSG 4-2 Barcelona and Barça's first defeat of the season (20 Oct 2026)
- VAVEL, BeSoccer and ESPN: match reports and scorers (20 Oct 2026)
- Barca Blaugranes and Yahoo: match recaps (20 Oct 2026)
- @FCBarcelona and @PSG_English on X: club posts before, during and after the match (20 Oct 2026)
- ESPN, FC Barcelona statement and Goal: Ferran Torres transfer to PSG (15 Aug 2026)
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