20 goals and record figures at Barça

The 2024-2025 season is turning out to be a dream for Raphinha. The Brazilian is on fire and goals are ‘falling from his pockets’, as was demonstrated on the night of this Wednesday in the thrashing of FC Barcelona against Betis (5-1) in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey. In another exhibition by the culés, the ’11’ once again played a leading role by scoring the third goal that sealed the match.

The Porto Alegre native accompanied Lamine Yamal in a spectacular run from the academy player from his own area, and as if he were a pure ‘9’, he took advantage of the rebound from the blocked shot of the ’19’ and increased the Catalans’ lead to three goals, celebrating, in addition, his twentieth goal this season.

Raphinha doubles his scoring record at Barça

With this goal, Raphinha has already doubled his best scoring record since arriving at Barça. In his first year in the Catalan city (2022/23), the winger accumulated ten goals and 12 assistscounting La Liga, Copa del Rey, and Europa League (he did not score in the group stage of the Champions), the same figure he reached in his second season wearing the blue and garnet jersey (2023/24), although with one more assist.

Now, the player already has 20 goals in the 28 matches he has played this season (7 in La Liga, 4 in Champions, 2 in Copa del Rey, and 2 in the Supercopa de España), in addition to adding 10 assists, with memorable performances such as his ‘hat-tricks’ against Valladolid and Bayern Munich. The Brazilian has managed to turn his situation at the club around radically and, today, he is one of the great stars of a project that promises to make history.