Champions League: Barcelona overwhelming, victory in Jannik Sinner style
Barcelona is the first team to celebrate success in Matchday 3 of the Champions League 2025-2026: the Hansi Flick-coached team overwhelmed the hapless Olympiacos with a tennis-like 6-1, also taking advantage of the Piraeus team’s numerical inferiority from 57′ onwards, given Santiago Hezze’s expulsion for double yellow. In the’other match that started at 6:45 p.m., 0-0 between Kairat and Pafos.
At Montjuic it was Fermin Lopez’s night: the class of 2003 led Barça into the lead at 7′ and signed the double at 39′, before the only red and white goal scored by El Kaabi on a penalty kick at 54′ (a few minutes earlier a mark had been annulled to the same Moroccan striker for offside). At 68′ then it was Lamine Yamal who joined the list of scorers, followed at 74′ by Rashford.
Two minutes after the Englishman’s goal came Fermin Lopez’s hat trick, on an assist from the almost 20-year-old Roony Bardghji. Finally, Rashford again finally fixed the score at 6-1, a significant result not only for the three points but also at the level of goal difference, the first classification criterion in case two or more teams finish tied on points at the end of the eight days of the League Phase.
The score was not only significant for the three points but also for the goal difference, the first classification criterion in case two or more teams finish tied on points at the end of the eight days of the League Phase.
In Almaty, on the other hand, neither the host Kairat nor Pafos, who arrived from Cyprus, manage to celebrate their first ever victory in the main phase of the Champions League. The guests are forced to play from the 4th′ in ten due to the direct expulsion of Joao Correia, guilty of a killer intervention on Luis Mata, but the hosts do not take advantage and, indeed, risk big at 72′, when a goal was canceled for offside to Anarbekov. Shortly afterwards the Kazakhs hit the post with Zaria: it was the’last chance of a match that ended in white nets.
