All hell breaks loose at Estádio da Luz after Barcelona stun Benfica | OneFootball

Estádio da Luz will always go down in Barcelona’s history books for hosting one of the Catalan club’s worst-ever losses and best-ever wins. If the 8-2 defeat to Hansi Flick’s Bayern Munich marked the club hitting rock bottom, last night’s 5-4 win over Benfica by the German coach’s Barcelona was a sign of just how far they had come.

Make no mistake, in most seasons in the recent past, Barcelona would have absolutely crumbled under pressure at Da Luz, with the game playing out as it did but this team is built differently. Hansi Flick’s men simply did not give up on the night.

Barcelona were looking into the barrels with the score 4-2 in the Portuguese side’s favor. Yet, starting from the 78th minute, the Spanish club managed to score three goals, through Lewandowski, Raphinha, and Eric Garcia, to pull off a remarkable turnaround.

Now, as per Mundo Deportivo, all hell broke loose in the tunnel after the game with an altercation between several Benfica players and Raphinha. The Barcelona captain was said to be at the center of things and the players had to be separated by the Portuguese police.

The emotions obviously would have been running high through both teams. Benfica has just thrown away a game that they thought they had in the bag and Barcelona had just performed a comeback for the ages. Surely, it isn’t easy to deal with this?

Speaking about the incident to the microphones of Moviestar, here is what Raphinha had to say about the situation in the tunnel. He said:

“I’m a person who respects everyone, but when I was leaving the pitch there were people who insulted me. I returned the insults. I know I shouldn’t do it, but I returned the insults. In the end, we all got heated. Benfica’s side also got a bit heated.”

“They could have understood the situation, but they preferred to insult me. I’m a person who doesn’t take anything home, what they say to me, they’re going to hear it too. It was something that happened, we were all heated, but it’s normal in football, after the end of a match like this, that this happens.”

Raphinha proved last night yet against just why he is so clutch. The Brazilian steps up on the biggest occasions, highlighting his status as a truly elite player and he was so important to Barcelona performing the comeback last night.

Ultimately, things like these scuffles are a part of football when the emotions run high. In the end, no harm was done, and as Raphinha says, as long as people don’t take anything back with them, all they will remember from last night at Da Luz is a terrific game of football.