Hansi Flick's FC Barcelona is a true offensive machine that, match after match, looks increasingly superior to its rivals. On Wednesday, the Catalans scored their third consecutive win in the UEFA Champions League against Red Star (2-5), a duel where, despite the 'little hand', the Barça team had three shots on the post.
The statistic is common this season for Barça, since, in 12 days of LaLiga, the team has accumulated a dozen shots on the posts. Adding both tournaments, the team has accumulated 15 shots on target in 16 official matches. Real madness, considering that the club has scored 55 goals so far.
In the Champions League, Barça closed matchday 4 with 15 goals in favor and 5 against, averaging 3.75 goals per game. In the League, Flick's team has scored 40 goals in 12 games, which translates into 3.3 goals per game.
The Barca added its first 3 goals in the Champions League this season
In the 18th minute, the first post of the night arrived. Raphinha wanted to surprise with a direct corner that almost missed goalkeeper Ilic, but the ball hit the woodwork. 25 minutes later, the Brazilian hit the post again, this time with a shot from the edge of the area.
Luckily for Barça, the rebound at the base of the crossbar fell to Robert Lewandowski, who only had to push it into an empty goal to give the culés the lead on the scoreboard before the break.
In the second half, the team led by Hansi Flick found many more spaces and soon put the game away. Lewandowski, Raphinha and Fermín López closed another 'little hand' for the culés that could well have been a bigger result. In the 84th minute, a volley by Fermín was repelled by the crossbar, denying the Andalusian a great goal to widen the difference.
For Barça, the three balls to the post against Red Star were their first of the tournament, since in the duels against Monaco, Young Boys and Bayern Munich there were no Barça shots on the woodwork. In fact, only the Swiss team had hit the woodwork against the Catalans in the matchday 3 duel (1 shot), as neither the French nor the Germans recorded attempts on the post in the other two games. There were no scares of this type for Barça in Belgrade either.