Barcelona thrashes Red Star 2-5 in Belgrade, and remains untouchable after suffering in the first half and failing in the second half.
BELGRADE, Serbia –No one can stop Barcelona. For now. In Belgrade they beat Red Star by a clear 2-5 and thus achieved their third victory in the UEFA Champions League, which catapulted them to the top positions, forgetting the stumble of AS Monaco, and also achieved their seventh consecutive victory. Since losing in Pamplona, Hansi Flick’s team has won everything… and has scored 29 goals in those last seven games.
Robert Lewandowski (right) stood out in Barcelona’s victory over Red Star in the Champions League. AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic
Robert Lewandowski 99 goals in Championshe Barcelona He surpassed 700 goals in his history in the competition and while Real Madrid speculates, regretting their defeats and knowing that their visit to Anfield could almost be a final, the ‘Flick Teen’ rides at full speed. As untouchable as it is unattainable.
Al Red Star He ended up kneeling him, after suffering a few minutes of disconnection, with superb acceleration. Lewandowski avoided nerves in the last breath of the first half and Hansi Flick’s supposed talk during the break caused his players to come out much more willing in the second. Result? two goals in four minutes, from Lewandowski and Raphinha, with a double assist from Jules Koundé and the test passed.
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The Serbian team, League champion for the last seven years and which has not known defeat at home for 137 games in the tournament, stood up to the Barcelona until he could and even beyond. Two minutes later, young Andrija Maksimovic had a goal disallowed for offside, the 100th of the season that caused the Barcelonaand that play, more than giving wings to Flick’s team, encouraged the Red Star.
Supported by a tireless fan, not even the 0-1 scored by Iñigo Martínez around the quarter-hour mark (an excellent header after a great serve from Raphinha) diminished the local momentum, finding a reward before the half-hour mark with Silas’s equalizer. After adjusting so much and taking risks with the offside, the young Gerard Martín did not go in time and the invention broke… Did it ever have to happen? Probably. After more than a hundred offsides, some errors must be expected. Of course, the 1-1 score hurt and led to minutes in which the ghost of Monaco flew over. Lewandowski avoided it, attentive to the rebound of the post from Raphinha’s shot, almost reaching the break.
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What must have happened in the dugout during that halftime will not be said by the protagonists, but it is suspected, with all logic, that Flick demanded that the players step forward, that they put more energy and not risk a match that had to be won without discussion.
Said, demanded, and done, solved. Koundé took his wing like a highway thanks to the collaboration of Lamine Yamal and in two minutes he gave assists to Lewansdowski and Raphinha, who turned a worrying 1-2 into an indisputable 1-4.
And he no longer had the capacity to respond. Red Star I don’t even want to slow down Barcelonawho reached the hand with another assist from Koundé for Fermín López’s cross shot into the net. A handful of goals, a full-fledged lesson…
A great goal from Felicio Milson delighted the already compliant local fans. His ultras continued singing tirelessly knowing that he had become the Red Star in the team with the most goals in the Champions. There is no one to stop this one at the moment. Barça. Seven wins in a row with a monumental overall performance. From the first to the last.
