Raphinha has had an outrageous season with Barcelona, amassing 27 objectives and 18 assists throughout all competitions in 45 appearances. And it’s within the Champions League that he has particularly thrived.
Throughout Barcelona’s 4-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday within the first leg of their quarter-final tie, Raphinha continued his wonderful Champions League with one objective and two assists. And that has taken him on to 12 objectives and 7 assists within the competitors, as he leads each the goalscoring and help charts.
And this whole of 19 objective contributions has him chasing down the file within the Champions League, which is held by Cristiano Ronaldo (22 G/A). He’s already the Brazilian participant with essentially the most objective contributions in a single marketing campaign within the competitors, and on Wednesday, he drew stage with Lionel Messi’s greatest particular person season, as per Diario AS.
Again within the 2011-12 season, Messi amassed 14 objectives and 5 assists for Barcelona within the Champions League, and that whole of 19 objective contributions has now been matched by Raphinha, who will hope to go previous the Argentine icon when the Catalan facet face Borussia Dortmund in subsequent Tuesday’s return leg.
It has been a really particular season from Raphinha up till this stage, and as issues stand, he’s many individuals’s favorite to win the 2025 Ballon d’Or, which might be handed out by France Soccer later within the yr. And given his numbers, it will be no shock to see him proper up there, particularly if Barcelona have been to finish the season with success in La Liga, the Champions League and the Copa del Rey.
Raphinha is unlikely to be fascinated by private data at this stage, as his focus might be on making certain that Barcelona have a really profitable finish to the season.