Barcelona vs Bayern München

Barcelona ended a run of six straight defeats against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League, beating them for the first time since May 2015 (3-0). All three of their wins over the German side have been by three or more goals (4-0 in 2009, 3-0 in 2015 and 4-1 tonight).

Barcelona became the first team since Real Madrid in April 2014 to score three first half goals in a UEFA Champions League game against Bayern Munich, while Raphinha was the first player to score a first half brace against the German side in the competition since Neymar in May 2015 (also for Barcelona).

Barcelona’s Raphinha became just the fourth player in European Cup/UEFA Champions League history to score a hat-trick against Bayern Munich, after Roy Makaay in 2002, Sergio Agüero in 2014 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017.

Barcelona have lost their last six matches against Bayern Munich, conceding 22 goals and failing to score at all in the last four defeats. In their entire history, they’ve only lost more consecutive games in all competitions against Real Madrid between 1962 and 1965 (seven in a row).

Bayern Munich have won 10 UEFA Champions League games against Barcelona (D1 L2) – in Champions League history, only Real Madrid against Bayern Munich (11 wins) have ever won more games against a single opponent.

Bayern Munich are looking to become just the second side to win seven consecutive UEFA Champions League matches against an opponent, along with Real Madrid vs Ajax between 2010 and 2019.

Barcelona - and former Bayern Munich - manager Hansi Flick has won 17 of his 20 games in the UEFA Champions League (85%), the best win percentage of any manager with more than two games in the competition. Indeed, 17 wins is the most by a manager in the first 20 games in the competition’s history.

Among teams involved in the 2024-25 edition, Barcelona are on the longest current run of consecutive UEFA Champions League games scored in (8). However, the last away team to keep a clean sheet against Barcelona in the competition was Bayern Munich in October 2022 (0-3 defeat).