Raphinha's great moment with FC Barcelona continues to bear fruit for the team led by Hansi Flick. This Wednesday, the '11' led the Barça attack in his 100th official match with the club, scoring a hat trick against Bayern Munich (4-1), the culé's 'black beast' in recent years, to consolidate himself as one of the best strikers in the world and break the Bavarian curse for Barça.
The one from Porto Alegre started the game in the best way, catching a completely advanced Munich defense asleep. Fermín López threw the ball into space and the Barça winger broke the offside by beating Joshua Kimmich in the center circle. After a run, the Brazilian left Neuer behind to finish into an empty goal. It was only 54 seconds.
Raphinha destroyed Bayern's defense
Barça suffered the first quarter of an hour after 1-0, but reacted after Harry Kane's temporary equalizer in the 18th minute. Fermín dressed as an assistant again in the 36th minute, taking advantage of a miscalculation by Kim Min-Jae on a long ball to leave with the ball and assist Robert Lewandowski 'in extremis', dotting the ball before Neuer's departure so that the '9' just had to push it into the net.
Raphinha participated little in the culé game after the goal, but appeared again in the 45th minute with a definition of world 'crack'. Marc Casadó threw a long ball, catching the Brazilian's diagonal on the left. The '11' dribbled past Guerreiro with ease and, when Upamecano wanted to give the Portuguese a hand, the winger took a lethal shot that slipped between Dayot's legs to shoot Neuer.
After the break, Bayern wanted to go on the attack to get the discount to get them back into the game, but the Brazilian put in the dagger in the 56th minute to end any hope of a Munich comeback.
A corner in favor of the visitors ended in another lethal Barça counterattack, this time with a good start from Pedri and a long ball from Lamine Yamal so that the Porto Alegre player left Kim Min-Jae and Upamecano scattered, defining a left-footed cross for beat Neuer. Another undeniable goal.
Raphinha's total celebration in his hundredth game with Barça
For the man from Porto Alegre it was his hundredth game with Barça and number 15 in the UEFA Champions League. This season, the 27-year-old forward has already scored 4 goals in 3 games, in addition to 1 assist in the tournament.
In total, there are 29 goals scored in all competitions for the former Leeds attacker, who is already just one goal away from reaching his maximum number of goals scored in his first two seasons in Barcelona (10) in just 13 appearances in 2024. /25.