Barcelona crushed their Dutch visitors Feyenoord 5-1 in the opening round of the Champions League league stage.
The match was sealed at the latest in the 57th minute, when Raphinha already took “Blaugrana” to a 3–0 lead.
However, Barcelona had already taken hold of the host long before that. Raphinha had already started scoring in the third minute of the game and Karim Adeyemi doubled the lead twenty minutes later.
Lamine Yamal and Gabriel Jesus were completed by the crushers in the last quarter. Between Sem Steijn got to hit the only hit of the Rotterdam team.
Barca has looked frighteningly good at the beginning of the season, because even in the Spanish league they have won all four of their matches and scored a whopping 17 goals in them.
Wednesday’s in the second Champions League match of the early evening, VfB Stuttgart did not let the league stage debutant Viking surprise. Stuttgart won 3–1. The course of the match was special, as all the goals were scored within 12 minutes.
Stuttgart’s character had scored all of the team’s goals Ermedin Demirovic. Demirovic didn’t even have to do the hat trick for half an hour.
The Norwegian champion momentarily shook the Swabians when Zlatko Tripic equalized to 1–1. However, Demirovic scored the winning goal just four minutes later.
Four more late-night matches will be played in the Champions League on Wednesday. Coverage includes, for example, Liverpool–Atlético Madrid and Napoli–Arsenal.