Barça thrashes the great revelation of the Champions League and takes a giant step towards direct qualification

Barça wins decisively again in the Champions League to get closer to the mathematical classification for the round of 16. Their last victim was Brest, the great revelation of the first days, but they could do little to avoid a 3-0 which could have been more bulky. Robert Lewandowski, who scored a hundred goals in the Champions League with a penalty to later complete his double, and Dani Olmo were the architects of the culé triumph.

The ghosts of Balaídos haunted Montjuic in the return of the Champions League to Barcelona. Flick’s team needed to play a great game to remove the doubts and bad feelings they had left against Celta, but, in three days, with the setback still recent, it was impossible.

Barça jumped into their stadium to change the bad dynamics of the last few games, but sometimes things don’t go the way you want: At the start, a static team was seen, turned off, disconnected in pressure and without brightness creative to threaten the goal of a Brest that generated danger with several centers into the area that in the end came to nothing. That was until the first one arrived.

Bizot overwhelmed Lewandowski with a terrible start to clear a ball and there were no doubts: penalty for the culés. It was the ‘9’ who grabbed the ball to put it in the net an instant later and celebrate his 100 goals in the Champions League.

Already ahead on the scoreboard, Barça grew and came close to second: Fermín had up to three occasionsa one-on-one, a shot after a ball behind Lewandowski and a header; and in another Raphinha shot into the side of the net.

But there was no way to put any ground on the scoreboard and the Blaugrana team went to the locker room with a 1-0 lead. He returned to the grass in the same line: Fermín had his umpteenth chanceafter a great counterattack and a backheel from Lewandowski, but he found Bizot again.

It was not until the 66th minute was over, shortly after Chardonnet took a shot from Dani Olmo off the line, when Barça saw the goal again. This time luck did smile on the culé midfielder, who went to the kitchen, leaving the French central defender on the ground along the way and beat the goalkeeper with some luck.

Brest closed the gap after 10 minutes. A goal that could have given excitement to the final stretch of the game, and that He did not get on the scoreboard due to Pereira Lage’s offside at the beginning of the play. So the French team left Montjuic without a prize.

With his rival practically defeated, Pablo Torre had the third, but with everything in his favor he threw her out. Lewandowski had to appear again, with his 101st goal in the chamber, to seal the match: Balde left it behind from the left, and the Pole, an expert in the area, put the inside of the boot to send it into the nets, adjusting it to the post.

There was no time for more in Montjuic. Barça took the three points to recover sensations after their double setback in the Leagueand get closer to qualifying for the round of 16 in the Champions League.