Barcelona – blister Barcelona Side blown Borussia Dortmund away at the Olympic stadium on Wednesday to move to the brink of the first The UEFA Champions League Semifinal since 2019. Rap opened scoring, Robert Lewandowski counted twice and Lamine Yamal finished 4-0 victories late.
Next week there is still a second leg in Dortmund, but it is hard to see that Barça will not set the final four meetings against either Bayern Munich or International. It is a Barça party that plays as a team, works hard for itself, and most importantly, it has an attack that regularly suits goals.
It is one of the things that coach Hansi Flick says he loves most about this team. Never on a handbrake.
“It’s not completed at 2-0 or 3-0,” Flick said in January, at the beginning of the undefeated Barça run, which now stretches on 23 games in all competitions. “They’re going to the end of the match. That’s what I love and what we want to play.”
This will be ethos in Germany next week.
“I think we played very well, but we have one more game,” Lewandowski told reporters after the game. “We always want to play our game and we want to go there and win. That’s always the goal.
“If you have a 4-0 lead in half-time (in a tie), in the second half in Dortmund you have to play the same. Or even better. This is the Champions League and we always want to be the best.”
Lewandowski is a good place to start. His orthosis took him to 40 goals for the season and 99 for Barça in big age 36 years. He was often overlooked with Raphinha and Yamal dazzling both of his sides and Pedri It pulls out the strings in the center of the field, but it is always present against Dortmund.
His former party must be ill from a view of him. He headed second in Barça and after a good job from Yamal and added a third with a low surface and Fermine López. Both goals were accompanied by angry celebrations, although he spent four years playing for Dortmund before moving to Bayern Munich in 2014. Since then he continued against them at 29 times 29 times in 28 games.
Meanwhile, Raphinha has the Champions League season for ever. He leads competition with 12 goals – followed by Lewandowski 11 – and a total of 19 goals. This is for Brazilian and the level most Lionel MessiThe best European campaign for the Catalan club. His first against Dortmund was his simplest-but also made a nerve waiting to check the Offside. Pau CubarsiThe touch was aiming when the Brazilian slipped to make sure, and with the revision eventually confirmed that it was only on the side.
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Moreno: Dortmund never had a chance against Barcelona
But Moreno says it is no wonder that Borussia Dortmund handed Barcelona heavy defeat.
“I was afraid of the first goal, if I were offside, it is good that it was given,” Raphinha told reporters. “I apologized to Cubarsi. He told me no worries, he would count as help. I thought the ball was expanding, it was an instinctive decision.”
The numbers are at the same level as some of the best attacks that adorned the Champions League in the 21st century. Raphinha and Lewandowski are the first teammates to achieve more than 10 goals in the competition since then Muhammad is wrong, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Managed the performance for Liverpool In 2017-18. The last couple Barça on both the Double Numbers Score was Messi Neymar In 2014-15, the last time Blaugrany won the competition.
And then there is Yamal, who became the first player to have ever achieved more goals in the Champions League before 18. Brilliant Gregor Kobel He held it outside in the fifth minute, then turned before setting up Raphinh, who shot in the side net.
Teenager’s passage to López in accumulation to Lewandowski’s second goal was also noble, and he finished his night with his 14 goal. Alejandro Balde toast four more goals from Barça.
That’s 21. Time this season Flick’s Side has triggered four or more goals in the game. They played 48 matches. In the 11th Champions League, they scored 36 goals, which is on average over three per match. This is seven more than any other team – and played at least two games at least less than most.
It is at the other end, when the teams will seem to cause damage if their undefeated run is to end. Dortmund Striker Serhh Guirassy At the end of the first half, Hatt missed the trick of chances. If one of them left, it could have been another game.
Visitors also had a chance late. Wojciech szczęsny stored before United States international Giovanni Reyna And the late goal was expelled for offside, but there was no late consolation for the Niko Kaver side to return to Germany. Other opponents may not be so unnecessary, but keeping Barça is another thing.
Wednesday’s goal-Fest, although it is necessary to do hard work, will do little to suppress the height. Barça are already in Copa del rey Final 26th April to face Real MadridWhile they also lead Lobby by four points with eight games. And now you have one leg in the Champions League semifinals.
“If you say that another team will win, I don’t know why you’re going to the playground so you can play, so we can win height,” Yamal said Espn this week. “We’re Barça. We’ve already achieved it (in 2009 and 2015) – hopefully we can do it again.”
