Raphinha brings 10 Man Barcelona 1-0 win over Benfica in the Champions League | Football news
Barcelona struggles to win, despite the fact that the teenage defender Pao Cubarsi was sent in the middle of the first half.
Raphinha scored the only game of the game to give Barcelona 1-0 Champions League last 16 First leg win in BenficaDespite the Catalan giants playing the most games with 10 men.
The eighteen -year -old Pau Cbars defender was sent in the middle of the first half of a tight conflict in Lisbon on Wednesday with a bare result.
Raphinha drilled the home after 61 minutes to give Barcelona a thin advantage on the side of Bruno Lage in front of the second Tuesday next Tuesday.
Barcelona has not won the competition since 2015, but it is expected to go deep this season, after being drawn, which many consider to be favorable.
Hansi Flick insisted before the game No such “light” tie of the Champions League And the coach was proven exactly on a tense dinner in the Portuguese capital.
“I’m very proud,” the German coach said after his team came out with the victory.
Wojciech Szczesny goalkeeper suffered two high mistakes against Benfice in the league stage in January, but changed a number of savings because Barca was scored in the last half hour.
Szczesny saved wisely to refuse Benfica Kerema Akturkogl after only a few seconds, and the initial stages were played in a way that indicated that both sides picked up where they stopped in the wild of 5-4 Barcelona in Lisbon.
“The last time I don’t think [Szczesny] She’s very happy here, “said midfielder Barca Pedri.
“He saved a lot [tonight]One at the start, where, if they score a goal, you start the game with a bad base – there is a great presence between the rods and it is great to have it. “
Dani Olmo at the other end shot closely as Barca threatened, before Benfica goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin created a stunning three -time savings to retain the results.
The Ukrainian first parked Olmo Dani, and then made a great reaction stop to make Robert Lewandowski from the range and empty range and threw out the attempt of Lamina Yamal from the jump.
Barcelona had a blow when the 18-year-old Center-Beck Cbarsi was sent after 22 minutes.
Spaniard Benfice Vangelis Pavlidis, who scored a hat-trick in a group match while running through the goal.
Szczesny saved the ride an orkun free kick from a free kick, and Flick sacrificed Olma for defender Ronald Araujo to get on board.
The Polish goalkeeper, who pulled Barcelona out of retirement after Marc-Andre Ter Stegen suffered a serious knee injury in September, also made a fine reaction, except that he retained the Akturkoglu header before the break.
Despite their numerical disadvantage, Flick’s Barca gave as well as they got in Estadio da Luz.
Szczesny made another good intervention to stop Pavlidis and hold Benfica in the Bay, before Raphinha broke down the stack.
On the right side after Flick replaced Yamal early in the second half with Ferran Torres, Raphinha stole to beat the ball high up and the low, rejected effort home from afar.
It was his ninth goal in nine Champions League games, with a forward in the form of a career.
Barcelona defended herself fiercely in the last stages as Benfica sought to equalize.
The hosts thought they had won the penalty when Szczesny knocked Andrea Belotti, but the upgrade was also offsids, and Barcelona survived with their pristine lead.
“We used to defend ourselves today,” Pedri added. “After red, we knew exactly what to do, stay together in the back, defend yourself as a block and take your chances with the players we have in advance.”
Somewhere else in the Champions League last 16, Bayern Munich defeated Bundesliga rival Bayer Leverkusen 3-0, and while Liverpool was the second best all night, the late goal of Harvey Elliotta secured them a 1-0 victory in Paris Saint-Germain.
In an early game on Wednesday, Lautaro Martinez scored for all the leading Inter Milan scorer in the Champions League in a 2-0 victory for the Italian Giants against Feyenoord.
