Barcelona captain Raphinha scored a hat-trick to lead his side to a commanding 4-1 home victory over Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday.
2024/2025 UEFA Champions League
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Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
1' RAPHINHA opens the score after 1 minute!!!! Barcelona 1-0 Bayern
10' NO GOAL! VAR rules offside. Bayern 0-1 Barça
16' Kane's header saved by goalkeeper
18' HARRY KANE scores again and this time it counts !!! Barcelona 1-1 Bayern
26' Neuer almost gets caught out by Lamine
36' ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI has given them the lead again!!! Barcelona 2-1 Bayern
45' RAPHINHA is incredible!! Barcelona 3-1 Bayern
50' Big chances for Lewandowski and Raphinha but no goal
50' Ball falls for Palhinha but his shot is wide
56' RAPHINHA has scored a hattrick against BAYERN MUNICH!! Barcelona 4-1 Bayern
59' Pedri’s block denies Gnabry
60' 4 subs for Bayern
61' Substitution: Frenkie replaces Fermin. He takes the captain’s armband
62' Yamal was brought down in the box but there was an offside in the build-up
66' Coman shoots wide
70' Excellent control of the game from Lamine Yamal
72' Musiala's shot stopped!
76' Substitution: Raphinha gets a standing ovation as he makes his way for Dani Olmo
76' OFFSIDE! Openda’s goal disallowed
78' Yamal's shot wide out
83' INCREDIBLE cross from Lamine but Lewandowski can’t convert
Match Report
The win for Barca at their temporary Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys home ends a near decade-long winless run against the German powerhouses.
Raphinha's inspired night started when he gave Barca the lead a little over a minute after kick-off as he received a fine pass through by midfielder Fermin Lopez, beat the offside trap and rounded the onrushing Manuel Neuer to tap into the empty net.
Harry Kane leveled the score with a volley in the 18th minute, only for Robert Lewandowski to put the home team back in front in the 36th minute against his former side after a mistake by Bayern's defence.
Raphinha then extended Barca's lead with two goals from quick counter-attacks either side of half-time.
Barca are ninth in the Champions League standings on six points from three games, while Bayern are 23rd on three points after a second consecutive defeat.
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Data Debrief: Bayern blown away by brilliant Raphinha
This was expected to be a tight contest between two behemoths of the European game, but Raphinha had other ideas as he struck the first of his three goals inside just 54 seconds.
That is the second-earliest goal Barca have scored in the Champions League, beaten only by Mark van Bommel's goal against Panathinaikos in 2005 after 36 seconds.
He is the first player to score twice in the first half of a Champions League game against Bayern since Neymar did so far Barcelona in May 2015, and he only added to the German side's misery with his third in the second period.
Line-ups
Barcelona XI: Lewandowski, I. Martinez, Pena, Raphinha, Kounde, Pedri, Álex Baldé, Marc Casadó, Fermín López, Lamine Yamal, Pau Cubarsí
Subs: Szczesny, Olmo, De Jong, Fati, Pau Víctor, Pablo Torre, Gavi, Sergi Domínguez, Gerard Martín, Héctor Fort, Diego Kochen
Bayern XI: Neuer, Muller, Kane, Guerreiro, Gnabry, Kimmich, João Palhinha, Upamecano, Alphonso Davies, Min-jae Kim, Michael Olise
Subs: Ulreich, Goretzka, Dier, Coman, Sane, Laimer, Daniel Peretz, Jamal Musiala, Arijon Ibrahimovic, Mathys Tel, Adam Aznou