Champions League: Mythic overthrow Barcelona 5-4 Benfica despite Vangelis Pavlidis’ hat trick

In the best possible way he started it in 2025! In the first games of the 7th match for League Phase there were 33 goals scored, with him scoring 3 times for Benfica against Barcelona, a game that the Catalans with a dream twist, managed to win 5–4. What better a football friend can ask for than those who played the Champions League games on Tuesday night (21/01/25). Hat trick Vangelis Pavlidis, twists, thrills, goals and not only, were some of what happened in the first games for the 7th and last games of the League Phase, with the results being more than magic. Benfica – Barcelona 4-5 On a night he will always remember, Vangelis Pavlidis made the best appearance of his career, with the international Greek center scoring three goals against Barcelona, putting his name in a closed football club. And that’s because Pavlidis became the fourth footballer in the history of the Champions League who has a hat trick against Barcha, with Andrei Shefchenko and Faustino Aspriya in 1997 and Killian Ebape in 2021, being the previous. The Greek center fork scored in 2nd in 22′ and in 30′ with Barcelona temporarily tied to Levantovshi in 13′. The Catalans even reduced to 3–2 with a lucky goal of Rafinia to 64–1, however Ronald Araho’s autogoal to 68–1 in a phase Paulidis almost scored 4th goal, raised his scorer to 4–2. But when you have Barcelona against you, you can never be sure of anything! The Catalans in a mythical, in an unrealistic come back, turned from Hell and managed to win 4-5! To do this, Levantowski scored in 78–1, Eric Garcia in 86–1 and Rafinia with an amazing goal in the 6th minute of delays. Liverpool – Lille 2-1 Liverpool made 1–0 with the unstoppable this year Mohammed Salah at 34–1, with Lil tied against the flow of the race at 62–1 with the terrible Jonathan David. The French goal was furiously celebrated, but joy stayed for a while, as Harvey in 67 minutes Elliot put the “reds” back in front of the score, with 2-1 remaining to the end. Atlético Madrid – Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 The game had a lot of intensity and strong markings from the first minutes, with homeowners even staying with 10 footballers, due to the direct red card that Pablo Barrios faced in 25–1. The Germans took advantage of their numerical advantage and managed to lead the score with Hinshipae at 45+1–1. Atletiko entered the replay determined and managed to bring the match to equal, thanks to Julian Alvarez’s very difficult and amorphous goal at 52–1. In fact, the game returned to numerical balance when at 76′ Hinsipae was expelled with a second yellow card. This is how Atletico managed to make the overturn, with Alvarez scoring in 90′ giving the victory to the “rochimplancus”. More in a while…