It was a relaxed day at the office for Barcelona who romped past PSG 3-1 at the Parc des Princes in Paris in the first leg of the one sixteenth stage of the UEFA Champions League encounter.

Spectacular Luis Suarez on two occasions and rather embarrassingly nutmegged his namesake- David Luiz-before hitting a brace.

Neymar had opened the Barcelona account in the first half as the Blaugrana took a commanding 3-0 lead in a game that was expected to be feisty.

Mathiu came on for Rakitic late on and horribly cleared a shot into his own net to give the French side a deserved a consolation.

The two teams were no strangers at all and with Barcelona losing their first leg encounter 3-2 against the PSG in the group stage of the same competition, pundits had predicted a cliffhanger of an encounter.

But it turned out to be a Wednesday evening stroll on the park for the Spanish side who were quite ruthless in attack.

Lionel Messi in the 18th minute breached the PSG defence before setting up Neymar who made no mistake with a cool finish from close range.

The goal turned out to be a double blow for the host who had to substitute its dependable defender Thiago Silva after he got injured in a desperate effort to prevent the goal.

His replacement David Luiz would always look back at this game with some level of embarrassment after  he was run down and over by Luis Suarez.

The Uruguan early in the second half cheekily passed the ball through the legs of Luiz, beat two others, shoved off a challenge from the third before hitting low but hard to beat Sirigu in post for PSG.

It was Barcas second goal, Suarez first on the night but fifth goal in the 2014-15 Champions league season.

Luis Suarez again and in similar fashion passed the ball through the legs of David Luiz and struck a curvy shot which hit the roof of the net for Barca's third goal and his second on the night.

PSG got a consolation from an own goal from Mathiu.

The French side would need everything, including a miracle to make it through to the last four.