Champions League
Barcelona 5-1 Pilsen: Shaw Lewandowski at Camp Nou, the Pole scores a hat-trick
Robert Lewandowski kept the goals and in the Champions League for Barcelona (with a hat-trick) who easily beat Pilsen 5-1 at the Camp Nou in the 3rd group opener.
Barcelona started this year’s Champions League with the simplest task, at home against him Pilsen. That 5-1 Camp Nou for Group 3 gave Robert Lewandowski a chance for a hat-trick in top club competition and in the Catalans’ shirt.
However, another rookie, Frank Kessier, who also scored his first goal of the tournament, started the goals with the “blaugrana”. The episode could have been disastrous as John Mosquera wanted to score in the four quarters shortly after but fell down along with Andreas Christensen. The referee pointed to the porthole and drew the red card, but after checking the video, it turned out that the Colombian striker had hit the Danish stopper with his elbow earlier.
As the game didn’t become a thriller, Lewandowski made it 2-0 in the 34th minute, shortly afterwards he almost set up an assist for Pedri with a brilliant back-heel (the Spaniard was beaten by Jindrich). stink). The Catalans’ chances resulted in another Lewandowski goal late in the half.
The Czechs had reduced in the 44th minute with Jan Sikora but were unlucky at the Camp Nou, even if they had the first big chance in the second half, with an unmarked tackle by Tomas Hori from outside the box going wide.
However, Barcelona had the quality to score more as Lewandowski netted a hat-trick to take his tally to 89 in the competition and passed Karim Benzema’s 86 for fourth all-time. Ferran Torres saved the final score in the 71st minute for Barcelona who celebrated a Group of Death victory.
BARCELONA: Ter Stegen, Roberto (46′ Pique), Christensen, Coute, Alba, Kessier (81′ Torres), De Jong, Pedri (75′ Gavi), Dembele (75′ Depay), Lewandowski, Fati (65′ Torres)
Postcode: Stanek, Havel, Hejda, Pernica, Gemelka (86′ Holik), Kalvac, Buha, Sikora (79′ Pilar), Vulkanova (78′ Cermak), Mosquera (79′ Girka), Hori (66′ Bassey).
The results of the 1st round
The result of the 3rd group
The program of the 2nd game day
Source: Sport 24
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