Goals from Raphinha and Lamine Yamal secured Barcelona’s place in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. Look back at the game via the Opta data with our Barcelona vs Benfica stats page.
Barcelona cruised through to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals with a 3-1 win over Benfica in the second leg of this tie.
It was Raphinha (two goals) and Lamine Yamal that did the damage to make it nine games unbeaten for Barca in the competition.
After scoring the only goal of the first leg in Lisbon last week, Raphinha opened the scoring once again on 11 minutes. Yamal fired the ball across the goal before the Brazilian fired in first-time past Anatolii Trubin.
That lead only lasted two minutes, with Nicolás Otamendi equalising with a header following a corner. That goal saw Otamendi (37y 27d) become the third oldest goalscorer in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League behind Ryan Giggs (37y 148d) and Edin Dzeko (37y 54d).
Barcelona retook the lead via a player 20 years younger than Otamendi, with teenage sensation Yamal scoring from a wonderful curling effort from outside the box in the 27th minute. In doing so, he became the youngest player in UCL history to both score and assist a goal in a match (17 years, 241 days).
Raphinha added another goal to break yet another record. His 42nd-minute goal was his 11th in the competition this season, making him the first Brazilian to score more than 10 goals in a single UEFA Champions League campaign, overtaking 10-goal seasons by Kaká, Rivaldo, Roberto Firmino, Mário Jardel and Neymar. The Barca star has scored five goals across the three UCL meetings with Benfica in 2024-25.
Raphinha UCL Goals
There were no further goals in the second half, with much of the game after half-time controlled by the La Liga side as they progressed to the last eight for the second successive season. It was at that stage last term where they exited the competition at the hands of PSG, but this edition of the side looks better placed to make a genuine challenge for the trophy.
Our Opta match centre delivers you all the Barcelona vs Benfica stats from this UEFA Champions League meeting at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Spain.
The match centre below includes team and player stats, expected goals data, passing networks, an Opta chalkboard and more. It gives you everything you need to do your own match analysis.
Underneath the match centre you can find the official Opta stats on the game as well.
Barcelona 3-1 Benfica Stats: Post-Match
Barcelona have become the third team in UEFA Champions League history to reach 20+ quarter-finals, along with Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.
Barcelona have scored 32 UEFA Champions League goals this season, their most in a season since 2011-12 (35). The only other season they’ve netted more than their 32 this season was 1999-00 (45, a competition record).
Lamine Yamal became the youngest player in UEFA Champions League history to register five assists in the competition (17 years, 241 days), breaking Theo Walcott’s record of 19 years and 23 days.
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