Barcelona scores a rout in the Champions League, beating Young Boys

Barcelona achieved its first victory in the Champions League by beating the weak Swiss Young Boys (5-0), in a match that was a monologue for the Barça team and that helped them forget the setback in Monaco on the first day.

Barça was opening the Champions League season in Montjuïc, but the atmosphere was set, at the start of the European football competition match, by the thousand Swiss fans who had traveled to the Catalan capital to support their team.

However, the spirit of the Swiss fans began to decline very soon, because after 8 minutes, Robert Lewandowski finished off at will, from the goal’s mouth, what looked like a deflected shot – more than an assist – from Raphinha on the turn. .

Young Boys, the great dominator of Swiss football in the last decade, is a team in low times that is going through the pit of its League classification and has only won one game this season.

The team led by Patrick Rahmen, who lost at home to Aston Villa (0-3) on the first day, is one of the Cinderellas of this Champions League, and tonight they showed that the top continental competition is a stage that is too much for them. big.

Match without rhythm

Delivered almost from the beginning to their rival, the Barça dominance, with possessions of around 75%, was evident, but the match lacked rhythm, and the Swiss even managed to timidly get closer to the goal defended by Iñaki Peña, in a couple of counters that ended with deflected shots from Monteiro and Colley before the half hour mark.

However, the locals would end the match in just three minutes, as it took Raphinha to score a goal after a rebound by the visiting defense from a shot by Pedri and Íñigo Martínez to head in a lateral free kick from the Canary Islands midfielder to score the third.

Ferran Torres, whom Hansi Flick started today due to the absence of the suspended Eric García and the conversion of Raphinha as an interior player, was about to score the fourth shortly before half-time, but Keller avoided it in his one-on-one with the forward blaugrana.

The visiting goalkeeper could do nothing five minutes after the restart, when Lewandowski made it 4-0, again on the goal line, following a corner taken by Raphinha that was first headed by Íñigo Martínez.

Entry of two figures

With the match completely decided, the match entered a dull phase that did not even encourage the entry onto the field of play – greatly applauded by the public – of Ansu Fati and Frenkie de Jong, who were returning to play more than five months after being injured. for the third time the right ankle.

Misfortune befell Young Boys with the night’s 5-0 lead, the result of an own goal by Camara, who deflected a cross from Balde, with ten minutes remaining.

Monteiro, the most incisive player of the Helvetians, was on the verge of scoring the visitor’s goal. First, his shot hit the crossbar and, in addition, on a counterattack in which he ended up beating Iñaki Peña but which was disallowed for offside.

Barcelona / EFE