This was later added to with two expertly crafted second-half strikes from Villa and rampaging left-back Jordi Alba.We have seen the return of the old Barcelona and now we need to continue in the same vein," Alba said.With what remains of the season we need to keep playing with the same enthusiasm, intensity and hunger we showed today.The scale of Barca's victory has seen them reinstated as leading contenders for the Champions League but Roura attempted to calm expectations.Before we weren't so poor and now we are not so great and I wouldn't describe ourselves as favourites for the competition," Roura said.
At any stage of the game until the final goal we could have gone out if we had conceded, and I would have said the same, that we played well and were composed." Striker Villa, 31, scored as his side became the first in the competition to overturn a 2-0 first leg away loss.That setback in Italy was followed by back-to-back defeats by Real Madrid but Villa said: "When you go through that, the bad days are forgotten.We do not care who we get in the quarter-finals."
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