Raphinha surpasses Neymar Champions League record in Barcelona win


Barcelona Talisman Raphinha added his swollen goal to his swollen goal with a clip against Benfica on Tuesday for victory on Tuesday and brought his balance sheet alone in the Champions League this season.

Raphinha had scored the only goal for Barcelona in a close victory in the first assignment against Benfica last week and doubled his team’s total advantage with the opening goal of Montjuic. Nicolas Otamendi reduced the deficit for visitors before Lamin Yamal rolled up in a breathtaking second to make his own piece of history, and it was Raphinha who completes the goal with a 3-1 win.

In a single campaign, only five other Brazilians have ever achieved double -digit digits for the Champions League goals -and Raphinha is now solely related to the continental effectiveness in the famous history of his nation.

Neymar scored the previous record of the goals of the Champions League for a Brazilian when Barcelona won a European heights during the 2014/15 campaign. Raphinha has a similar goal. “I think we are candidates to win everything,” the striker existed after they had come to the quarter -finals, where they will compete against one from Lille or Borussia Dortmund.

Barcelona is currently leading La Liga and is coming up in the second stage of her Copa del Rey semi-final with half of the Copa del Rey with a total value of 4: 4.

Not too long ago, Barcelona’s ambitions of European success were limited to the Europa League. Nobody scored more than three goals in the last season competition, while the Catalans fell out of the Champions League 2021/22 group stage after scored only two goals.

Lionel Messi was the last player to score double -digit digits in Europe for Barcelona and scored 12 goals for the semi -finals in the 2018/19 campaign. With figures that are comparable to Prime Neymar and Messi, it is no wonder that Hansi Flick Raphhinha has made the balloon d’Or.

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