Raphinha celebrates together with his Barcelona teammates (Photograph by Octavio Passos/Getty Photos)
Barcelona winger Raphinha might be seeking to construct on a outstanding file within the Champions League this season as he prepares to tackle Brest on this night’s recreation.
The Brazil worldwide has 5 targets and two assists from 4 Champions League appearances to this point this time period, and generally he’s certainly up there with essentially the most improved gamers in Europe after this main enchancment we’ve seen since Hansi Flick grew to become Barcelona supervisor.
Arsenal able to BID £50m for Spanish celebrity!
Raphinha was as soon as a star participant at Leeds United as his dazzling shows lit up the Premier League, prompting Arsenal to point out an curiosity in him (as per the Telegraph) earlier than he in the end ended up shifting to the Nou Camp.
The Gunners are being linked with Raphinha once more now as a current report from Fichajes claimed that the north London giants may attempt providing as a lot as €90m to attempt to deliver him again to England.
Arsenal would clearly be doing very nicely if they might land the 27-year-old, who’s now certainly far too necessary for Barca to think about letting go.
Nonetheless, with AFC missing alternate options to Bukayo Saka, whereas the type of gamers like Gabriel Jesus, Gabriel Martinelli and Leandro Trossard has dipped, these new hyperlinks make sense.
Might Raphinha assist deliver Champions League glory again to Barcelona?
It’s been a comparatively lean interval for Barcelona in Europe’s prime membership competitors, and so they’ll be determined to get again to their finest on this match underneath the steering of Flick, who has a current win with Bayern Munich to his identify.
The German tactician guided Bayern to the treble within the 2019/20 season, and he’s now made a very promising begin at Barcelona, together with his means to get one of the best out of Raphinha trying key.
Might the Brazilian winger now be the Catalan giants’ essential man as they appear to win this trophy for the primary time since 2014/15? With the type of stats he’s produced to this point, it looks as if he’s actually the stand-out participant on this crew.
As per WhoScored, Raphinha has been statistically the second finest participant within the Champions League this season, behind solely Borussia Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi, who has performed fewer video games.
It’s nonetheless early days on this new-look version of the match, however there have been promising indicators to this point for Barcelona, and Raphinha might be seeking to additional set up himself as their MVP with one other shining show tonight.
