Champions League 2025, Barcelona Great Comeback Against Benfica

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Champions League 2025, Barça reaches the last 16 after a historic comeback against Benfica

 The Brazilian, the ‘MVP’ of the match, Barcelona vs Benfica Raphinha scored the final 4-5 to qualify the team for the round of 16 in Champions League 2025.

FC Barcelona swam through the meteorological and footballing deluge in their visit to SL Benfica, in a match in which the goalkeepers, Szczęsny and Trubin, emerged as protagonists. The first was in the first three goals that served for Pavlidis’ hat-trick in just under half an hour and, the second, gifting the second goal of the night for the ‘culers’. The score was 4-2 until Lewandowski, with his second penalty, Eric García and Raphinha, packaged an epic comeback to present a candidacy for higher levels in the competition.

It took just two minutes for Álvaro Careras to make progress down the left flank and, from the edge of the area, give Pavlidis a perfect ball to convert the first arrival into the first goal of the match against an impassive Szczęsny, who did not come out to intercept the cross in his first European start of the season . Benfica were not satisfied and immediately wanted to extend their lead with another arrival in the same sector but, this time, Aursners did not need to send it in.

Flick shook up the bench and brought on Ferran, replacing Koundé, only for Lamine to fall a few minutes later as he entered the area, leading to the third penalty of the night, with the same result. Lewandowski made it 4-3, with twelve minutes remaining in the 90th minute, with a shot to the left of Trubin. Raphinha, on the right, continued to search for the Portuguese area, without finding a finisher among the cloud of legs of the home team, in search of the definitive change of script. That came with a short corner kick to Pedri, the decisive one in the last half hour, which he crowned with a brilliant cross to Eric García’s head to silence Da Luz with the equaliser.

The script was followed by a saving save from szczęsny barcelona in a very clear one-on-one with the eternal ‘angelito’, Di María, and with an almost endless number of chances from the two wingers, Lamine – before being replaced by Gerard Martín – and Raphinha in the final stages, looking to seal a match to remember.

When the film seemed ready for the final screening in the best cinemas, two crowds with falls from Benfica, claiming a penalty, in the Barcelona area ended with a counterattack finished by Raphinha, to make it 4-5, and confirm that the best version of this team – tonight, in terms of the result – comes in the big games , despite the suspense when the referee reviews those falls and possible penalties after the goal. Even more so, taking into account that, pending receiving Atalanta on the last day, FC Barcelona is already a team for the round of 16 Champions League 2025.

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