BARCELONA, Spain — As nights of soccer watching go, it was an excellent one for shampooing your hair. Or organizing your T-shirt collection. Or maybe even polishing off that last chunk of “War and Peace” that you’d been putting off.
Whatever the alternative, it was surely better than the two Champions League matches on Tuesday night — one in Spain, one in Germany — that failed to deliver the scintillating drama one might hope for from two quarterfinal second legs. Were there goals? Sure, there were goals. Many of them were even pretty, a panoply of glittering lights within the gray air of inevitability.