Benfica vs Barcelona, Champions League: Final Score 3-0, Barça thoroughly dominated on the road

 Barcelona proceeded with their horrendous beginning to the European season with a 3-0 misfortune to Benfica at the Estádio da Luz in the subsequent Champions League bunch stage game. The Blaugrana yielded early and looked awful for the greater part of the evening, and the host group added two objectives in the subsequent half to annihilate Barça for great. 

FIRST HALF 

The primary half began severely for Barça as Pedri lost a ball in midfield to Julian Weigl, who dispatched it over the safeguard for Darwin Núñez to pursue and the youthful Uruguayan took on Eric García and discharged a shot into the base corner to give Benfica the lead after only 150 seconds. 

Barça reacted well to going behind and made a brilliant possibility when Pedri discovered Frenkie De Jong in isolation inside the case and the Dutchman set up Luuk De Jong for a simple tap-in, however the striker by one way or another miskicked the ball and permitted Lucas Veríssimo to gather up the risk. 

After that possibility, Barça could no longer danger the Benfica safeguard and Ronald Koeman chose to roll out an improvement, bringing Gavi off the seat after only 32 minutes to supplant Gerard Piqué. The replacement appeared to be assaulting yet Barça stay in a guarded 3-5-2 development with Frenkie at the back, and the Blaugrana battled to the furthest limit of the half.

At halftime, Barça were losing and not playing admirably by any stretch of the imagination, and required a ton of progress to get an outcome in the subsequent half.

SECOND HALF 

The subsequent half was an outright calamity: Barça totally collapsed and couldn't make any risk, while Benfica had many possibilities on the counter. The Blaugrana lost simple balls in midfield and left sections of land of room in behind, and they kept on being rebuffed. 

First it was Rafa Silva who tracked down the rear of the net after a shot from João Mário was saved by Marc-André ter Stegen, then, at that point, Sergiño Dest was required a handball inside the crate and Darwin Núñez scored his second of the night to make it 3-0. Eric García was shipped off for two yellow cards, and the last whistle reached end one more appalling night for the Catalans.

Benfica: Vlachodimos; Veríssimo, Otamendi, Vertonghen; Lazaro (Gilberto 45’), Weigl, Mário, Grimaldo (Almeida 76’); Rafa Silva (Pizzi 86’); Yaremchuk (Taarabt 76’), Núñez (Ramos 86’)

Goals: Nûñez (3’, pen 79’), Rafa Silva (69’)

Barcelona: Ter Stegen; García, Piqué (Gavi 33’), Araujo; Roberto (Mingueza 89’), F. De Jong, Busquets (Nico 68’), Pedri (Coutinho 68’), Dest; L. De Jong (Fati 68’), Memphis

Goals: None

Red Card: García (87’)