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Barcelona have all however secured qualification by means of to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League due to a first-half blitzkrieg from Raphinha and Lamine Yamal.
Having come into their Spherical-of-16 second leg with a slim one-goal benefit, Barça took a really early lead due to some brilliance from Lamine, who set Raphinha as much as strike residence.
The teenage sensation then went on to attain a golazo to reinstate Barça’s lead after Nicolas Otamendi had equalised earlier than Raphinha made it 3-1 by capping off a blistering counter-attack.
Along with his twin strike within the first half towards Benfica immediately, Raphinha has now turn out to be the main goalscorer within the UEFA Champions League this season – going previous Borussia Dortmund’s Serhou Guirassy (10).
Furthermore, Raphinha has now additionally turn out to be the Brazilian with probably the most objectives scored in a single Champions League marketing campaign with 11 in ten video games this season – going previous greats like Kaka, Neymar, Rivaldo, Mario Jardel and Roberto Firmino (all ten).
The brace additionally meant that Raphinha has now equalled the objective tally of legendary Brazil striker Ronaldo Nazario for Barcelona (48).
Not solely that, however the 28-year-old has now equalled Ronaldinho’s 14 objectives within the Champions League for Barcelona, doing so in 22 video games – 13 lower than the Brazilian legend (35 video games).
On prime of that, Raphinha (16 G/A) has now turn out to be the Barcelona participant to have the second-highest direct objective contributions in a single season within the Champions League, solely behind Lionel Messi (19 G/A in 2011/12).
The Ballon d’Or calls are definitely being earned by the Barcelona skipper.
