Lewandowski joined an exclusive club and Olmo showed his finishing ability as Barcelona eased past Brest in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Barcelona came into the game with some fresh wounds from the weekend, having thrown away a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Celta Vigo in La Liga. Here, they were up against the Champions League’s surprise package in Brest, a team that have won 4-0 away at RB Salzburg and held Bayer Leverkusen to a 1-1 draw.
But Barca turned in a controlled, professional performance, dominating possession, and allowing Robert Lewandowski to bring up his Champions League century, while also seeing the best summer signing Dani Olmo has to offer.
It was Lewandowski who opened the scoring for Barcelona, finishing from the penalty spot after being fouled by Marco Bizot in the area.
Barca dominated territory throughout the half, but Bizot stood up well to their chances, making one particularly good save from a Fermin Lopez header before the interval.
After the restart, Dani Olmo had an effort cleared off the line, and Bizot continued to impress in goal, despite his indiscretion to allow Barcelona a penalty.
And it took some magic from Olmo to finally find a way through and add Barca’s second, as he dribbled around his marker after a fine cut-back from Gerard Martin and finished calmly. To finish as he did, in one fluid movement, was exceptional from the former RB Leipzig man.
Barcelona should have had a third with six minutes to go, as a loose ball out from defence found Pablo Torre on the edge of Brest’s box, but his resulting shot was wild and did not trouble the goalkeeper. Instead, it was Lewandowski adding the finishing touch, with a fine strike into the bottom corner in injury time.
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