Barcelona’s historic remontada in the Champions League, Benfica suffers a painful defeat
The Spanish team Barcelona returned with a valuable victory after defeating the Portuguese Benfica, with a score of 4/5 at its home stadium, the Lisbon Sports Stadium, in the framework of the seventh round of the league stage in the group stage of the European Champions League season 2024-2025.
The first half ended in favor of Benfica with the score 1/3, as Vangelis Pavlidis scored a hat-trick for Benfica in the 2nd and 22nd minutes. And 30, while Lewandowski scored Barcelona’s goal in the first half.
In the second half, Barcelona was able to return, as the second goal for the visitors came from Rafinha in the 64th minute, before scoring Barcelona defender Arajo accidentally scored an own goal in the 68th minute, and Lewandowski was able to score the third goal for Barcelona in the 78th minute, and Eric Garcia continued by scoring the fourth goal in the 87th minute, and Rafinha concluded the five-pointer. At minute 90+9.
Barcelona achieved a historic achievement in the Champions League, as it became the first team to win a match with a score of 5/4 in the history of the competition, and it is also the second team. Only the team achieves victory despite conceding 4 or more goals, after Borussia Dortmund, which beat Legia Warsaw 8-4 in November 2016.
Heart of Barcelona Being two goals behind led to a thrilling victory for the first time in its history in the European Champions League, while Benfica suffered its second loss despite a two-goal lead, after being defeated by Red Star Belgrade by a score of 3-2 in September 1984.
Vangelis Pavlidis, Benfica player, scored the third fastest hat-trick in Champions League history during the first 30 minutes of the match, coming behind Robert Lewandowski (23 minutes against Salzburg in March 2022) and Marco Simone (24 minutes against Rosenborg in September 1996).
Barcelona guaranteed qualification for the round of 16 of the Champions League, after coming And runner-up behind Liverpool, with 18 points, while Benfica’s balance froze at 10 points in eighteenth place.
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