Barca beat Napoli, Arsenal win on penalties over Porto to reach Champions League quarters

Barcelona entered the Champions League quarterfinal for the first time in four years after they beat Napoli 3-1 on Tuesday and 4-2 on aggregate. Arsenal survived a scare to outclass Porto on penalties to reach the quarterfinals in 14 years.

Early goals by Fermin Lopez and Joao Cancelo set the hosts on their way and, after Amir Rrahmani cut the deficit before the break, Robert Lewandowski wrapped up the win with a late third.

Barca pressed high early on, giving Napoli little time to settle, and the few attacks the visitors managed to create ended with striker Victor Osimhen's offside.

The opening goal came when Cancelo played in Raphinha down the left wing and he cut into the area and pulled a ball back which Lewandowski let run to the unmarked Fermin who calmly slotted his shot into the bottom left corner.

The excellent Lamine Yamal's cross-field pass then found Raphinha who cut into the area and wrong-footed Giovanni Di Lorenzo before curling a shot which came back off the far post, and Cancelo was there to drive his first time effort into the net to double their lead.

Napoli finally found a way through on the half hour when Matteo Politano went past Cancelo in the area before playing the ball back to Rrahmani whose run from the back was rewarded with a sidefooted shot past goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen.

Visiting keeper Alex Meret kept Napoli in the tie with a couple of great saves after the break from Lewandowski and Ilkay Gundogan, but could do nothing about the final goal.

Lewandowski fashioned a neat one-two with Gundogan, who played the ball in to Roberto and his quick pass found the Polish striker for a simple tap-in to kill off Napoli's hopes.

Elsewhere, Arsenal coolly converted their first four penalties, with Porto's Wendell hitting the post before David Raya saved Galeno's effort to send the Gunners through 4-2 in the shootout after the match finished 1-0 to the London club after extra time.

Leandro Trossard's effort leveled the contest on aggregate shortly before halftime but Premier League leaders Arsenal were frustrated by the Portuguese side.

Extra time failed to separate the sides but Mike Arteta's team held their nerve to snap a run of seven successive exits at the last-16 stage.

(With input from Reuters)