A record-breaking Raphinha | OneFootball

With last night’s hat-trick, Raphinha has written his name into Barça’s history books. The Barça forward now has 9 goals in 6 league matches, a tally that has only one precedent at the Catalan club this century: Leo Messi, who achieved it in the 2017/18 season. The Barça captain is currently the competition’s top scorer, ahead of his teammate Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappé, both on 7 goals.

On top of that, with last night’s three goals, Raphinha has already tripled the 13 goals he scored under Xavi Hernández, according to data from journalist Oriol Jové. With Hansi Flick on the Barça bench, Barça’s number 11 has scored 39 goals. This shows just how much the arrival of the German coach has helped the Brazilian.

Raphinha and Hansi Flick celebrating the victory in the Clásico two seasons ago. Source: Jordi Cotrina

If we add together the goals scored by Lamine Yamal and the Barça captain at the start of this league campaign, 16 goals, according to MisterChip, they become the highest-scoring duo of the last 86 years. To find such a prolific start to a league season by two players, you have to go back to the 1940/41 season, when Campanal and Torrontegui of Sevilla reached that same goal tally in the first six league matches.

Image of the celebration between Lamine Yamal and Raphinha. Source: LaLiga

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