Raphinha scored a hat-trick in a sensational performance to help Barcelona to a brilliant win over German giants Bayern Munich. Look back at the UEFA Champions League match with our Barcelona vs Bayern Munich stats centre, plus the key post-match Opta facts.
Raphinha was the star of the show, as Barcelona’s forward scored a hat-trick in their 4-1 demolition of Bayern Munich on Matchday 3 of the Champions League.
The Brazilian forward scored a hat-trick, including a goal after just 56 seconds; the fastest goal ever conceded by Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
With further strikes on 45 and 56 minutes, Raphinha became just the fourth player to score a hat-trick in the Champions League versus Bayern Munich after Roy Makaay, Sergio Agüero and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Harry Kane had cancelled out Raphinha’s opener with his 34th UEFA Champions League goal, further increasing his record as the top English goalscorer in the competition. Former Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski put Barcelona back in front just 16 minutes later, however.
The Polish forward scored his 97th goal in the competition, moving him just three goals away from becoming the third player to reach a century of UCL goals after Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
For Bayern, this gave them a taste of their own medicine after their own thrashing of Dinamo Zagreb on MD 1 (9-2), but Barcelona were in exceptional form tonight. Their next match is a big one – El Clásico on Saturday versus Real Madrid at the Bernabéu. They’ll hope to replicate this performance and extend their lead at the top of La Liga.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Barcelona vs Bayern Munich stats from their UEFA Champions League meeting at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Spain.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own in-game and post-match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Barcelona vs Bayern Munich Post-Match Facts
- Barcelona ended a run of six straight defeats against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League, beating them for the first time since May 2015 (3-0). All three of their wins over the German side have been by three or more goals (4-0 in 2009, 3-0 in 2015 and 4-1 tonight).
- Raphinha became just the fourth player in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history to score a hat-trick against Bayern Munich, after Roy Makaay in 2002, Sergio Agüero in 2014 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017.
- The average age of Barcelona’s starting XI against Bayern Munich was 24 years and 185 days; their youngest for a UEFA Champions League match since December 2011 v BATE Borisov (23 y 93d). Indeed, this was the youngest starting XI ever to beat the German side in the competition.
- Lamine Yamal made his 10th start in the UEFA Champions League, becoming the youngest player at the time of doing so in the competition’s history (17y 102d).
- Since the start of last season, Harry Kane has been directly involved in more UEFA Champions League goals than any other player (17), as well as being the outright top scorer in this period (13 – also four assists).
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