{"id":34591,"date":"2025-09-15T05:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/raphinha-responds-with-brace-barca-thrashes-valencia-6-0-in-laliga\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T05:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:10:55","slug":"raphinha-responds-with-brace-barca-thrashes-valencia-6-0-in-laliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/raphinha-responds-with-brace-barca-thrashes-valencia-6-0-in-laliga\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphinha Responds with Brace: Bar\u00e7a Thrashes Valencia 6-0 in LaLiga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raphinha Responds with Brace After Being a Substitute in Barcelona’s Thrashing<\/h2>\n\nBarcelona forward Raphinha responded to being benched for being late to an activation session with a brace in the resounding 6-0 victory over Valencia in LaLiga.\n\nFerm\u00edn L\u00f3pez and Robert Lewandowski also scored two goals each, giving Bar\u00e7a ten points out of a possible twelve in the league this season. In addition, Marc Bernal returned to action after 383 days out due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament.\n\nIn the absence of Lamine Yamal due to injury, Raphinha was expected to start in Barcelona’s attack, but surprisingly he was not included in the starting eleven. Coach Hansi Flick gave the young Swedish player Roony Bardghji the opportunity.\n\nA source close to the matter revealed that Raphinha was excluded for arriving late to the pre-match activation session, following the same policy that Flick previously applied with Jules Kound\u00e9 and I\u00f1aki Pe\u00f1a.\n\nThe source added that a misunderstanding and a slight delay were the cause of Raphinha’s tardiness, who redeemed himself by scoring two goals after replacing Bardghji at halftime.\n\n\n
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\u201cOnly 11 players can play, so we have a few more on the team, that’s what I can say,\u201d Flick commented with a smile in the post-match press conference, when asked about Raphinha’s absence from the starting eleven.<\/p>\n\nHansi Flick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n“He trained well this week after the international break. His attitude is fantastic, I love what I see, and his mentality too. He also wants to learn and play with the team.”\n\n\n

\"Raphinha<\/figure>\n\n\n“I am happy with the performance of the entire team. From the beginning, we showed what we want to do. The intensity was present.”\n\n“We play as a team, together, for each other. The starting eleven was fantastic, but also the players who came off the bench. They increased the level of our performance.”\n\nThe Bar\u00e7a went into halftime with a 1-0 lead, thanks to Ferm\u00edn’s goal from a tight angle. The midfielder added his second goal in the 56th minute, after Raphinha scored following a cross from Marcus Rashford, completing an impressive performance after a summer in which he was linked with a possible departure.\n\n\n
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“I never had any doubt,” Ferm\u00edn said about the rumors of his possible signing for Chelsea. “There are always speculations, but I wanted to stay here and I will fight to stay here for many years. The rest is part of football.”<\/p>\n\nFerm\u00edn<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFlick was satisfied with what he saw from the Spanish international, but asked for caution.\n\n\n

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\u201cI think we have to stay calm,\u201d he said when asked about Ferm\u00edn’s performance. \u201cFor me, today is a big step for him. This is what I want to see in every game.\u201d<\/p>\n\nHansi Flick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRaphinha scored the fourth goal, and then Lewandowski came off the bench to score his first two goals of the season, the second with an assist from Bernal, who had just come onto the field.\n\nBernal’s appearance marked his return after more than a year, following an anterior cruciate ligament rupture in a league match last August. The 18-year-old received a warm ovation from the 5,862 spectators at the Estadi Johan Cruyff, where the match was played while Bar\u00e7a awaits the green light to return to Spotify Camp Nou.\n\n\n

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\u201cAfter this long road from the injury to return to the field, especially for him, for his family, it’s a great moment,\u201d Flick said about Bernal’s return.<\/p>\n\nHansi Flick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n“He worked very hard last year. You can also see it in the stadium, the fans, how they celebrated it. It means a lot to this club. I am happy for him.”\n\nThe Bar\u00e7a now focuses its attention on the Champions League. They begin their European participation this season with a complicated trip to Newcastle United, a Premier League team, on Thursday.\n\n“Last season we didn’t play in England, [against a] Premier League team,” Flick noted. “The quality there is amazing; Newcastle’s stadium is also great.”\n\n“I’ve followed them in recent years. What they are doing is really good. The coaching staff has done an incredible job. We are looking forward to playing in Newcastle.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raphinha Responds with Brace After Being a Substitute in Barcelona’s Thrashing Barcelona forward Raphinha responded to being benched for being late to an activation session with a brace in the resounding 6-0 victory over Valencia in LaLiga. Ferm\u00edn L\u00f3pez and Robert Lewandowski also scored two goals each, giving Bar\u00e7a ten points out of a possible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,158,932,2536],"class_list":{"0":"post-34591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-laliga","10":"tag-raphinha","11":"tag-valencia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}