Barcelona show off and smash Young Boys' net with five clean goals

Barcelona regained its balance and emerged victorious from its match against its guest, Young Boys of Switzerland, with five clean goals (5-0), in the second round of the Champions League, the league stage, on Tuesday.

After losing the opening match against Monaco 1-2 and ending its series of consecutive victories at the start of the local league with its loss on Saturday against Osasuna 2-4, Barcelona achieved the important thing before its next very difficult test against its guest Bayern Munich of Germany on the 23rd of this month in a journey that also brings it together with the latter’s compatriot Borussia Dortmund, the runner-up of the championship, but next month.

Polish Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring in the 8th minute after a pass from Brazilian Rafinha, who added the second after a corner kick (34), before Inigo Martinez scored the third and his first goal for Barça with a header after a free kick executed by Pedri (37).

Robert Lewandowski adds fourth goal for Barcelona

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Then Lewandowski added his second personal goal at the beginning of the second half after the ball reached him from the head of Inigo Martinez (51) before Guinean Mohamed Camara scored the fifth by mistake into his team's goal (81).

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In the match, Hansi Flick became the first Barcelona coach to win his first home match in the Champions League by a margin of 5 goals or more (5-0).

Young Boys have not won any of their ten away matches in the Champions League.

The average age of Barcelona's starting line-up for this match was 24 years and 269 days, the youngest Barcelona have had in a home Champions League match since December 2011 against BATE Borisov (23 years and 93 days), in a 4-0 win under Pep Guardiola.

Meanwhile, Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski became the second player in Champions League history to score more than 50 goals after reaching the age of 30 (now 51), after Cristiano Ronaldo (68).

Lamine Yamal has started more Under-18 matches than any other player in Champions League history (9), overtaking Jude Bellingham and Warren Zaire-Emery this evening (8 each).

(beIN Sports)