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Raphinha celebrates along with his Barcelona teammates (Picture by Octavio Passos/Getty Photographs)
Barcelona winger Raphinha will probably be trying to construct on a exceptional report within the Champions League this season as he prepares to tackle Brest on this night’s sport.
The Brazil worldwide has 5 objectives and two assists from 4 Champions League appearances to date this time period, and normally he’s absolutely up there with essentially the most improved gamers in Europe after this main enchancment we’ve seen since Hansi Flick grew to become Barcelona supervisor.
Arsenal able to BID £50m for Spanish famous person!
Raphinha was as soon as a star participant at Leeds United as his dazzling shows lit up the Premier League, prompting Arsenal to point out an curiosity in him (as per the Telegraph) earlier than he finally ended up shifting to the Nou Camp.
The Gunners are being linked with Raphinha once more now as a latest report from Fichajes claimed that the north London giants may strive providing as a lot as €90m to attempt to carry him again to England.
Arsenal would clearly be doing very properly if they may land the 27-year-old, who’s now absolutely far too vital for Barca to think about letting go.
Raphinha celebrates a objective for Barcelona (Picture by Alex Caparros/Getty Photographs)
Nonetheless, with AFC missing alternate options to Bukayo Saka, whereas the type of gamers like Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard has dipped, these new hyperlinks make sense.
Might Raphinha assist carry Champions League glory again to Barcelona?
It’s been a comparatively lean interval for Barcelona in Europe’s high membership competitors, and so they’ll be determined to get again to their greatest on this match below the steering of Flick, who has a latest win with Bayern Munich to his identify.
The German tactician guided Bayern to the treble within the 2019/20 season, and he’s now made a extremely promising begin at Barcelona, along with his capacity to get one of the best out of Raphinha trying key.
Might the Brazilian winger now be the Catalan giants’ principal man as they give the impression of being to win this trophy for the primary time since 2014/15? With the type of stats he’s produced to date, it looks as if he’s actually the stand-out participant on this group.
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As per WhoScored, Raphinha has been statistically the second greatest participant within the Champions League this season, behind solely Borussia Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi, who has performed fewer video games.
It’s nonetheless early days on this new-look version of the match, however there have been promising indicators to date for Barcelona, and Raphinha will probably be trying to additional set up himself as their MVP with one other shining show tonight.
