‘Have you ever seen a goal like that?’ asks commentator as Barcelona score ridiculous goal in game of goalkeeper howlers

GOALKEEPERS were the pantomime villains successful a nine-goal thriller betwixt Barcelona and Benfica past night.

The European giants went caput to caput successful their penultimate Champions League league signifier games of the play erstwhile the Catalan nine scored 3 goals successful the past 20 minutes to triumph 5-4.

Wojciech Szczesny came retired of status successful October to seal a woody to Barcelona amid their goalkeeping crisis, but manager Hansi Flick mightiness person felt his broadside would person been amended served without the Polish planetary bothering.

The erstwhile Arsenal and Juventus shot-stopper had a calamitous archetypal fractional successful betwixt the sticks arsenic helium dropped 2 clangers to concede a first-half hat-trick from Vangelis Pavlidis.

There was thing Szczesny could person done astir Pavlidis' opener, but his 2nd and 3rd were astir wholly down to the Pole.

Just 9 minutes aft Robert Lewandowski had levelled the scores for Barcelona to 1-1, Szczesny inexplicably came charging retired of his country to greet a "loose" shot played implicit the apical by Nicolas Otamendi.

Instead, helium clumsily clattered into his ain defender Alejandro Balde, wholly wiping retired the left-back and allowing Pavlidis to people the easiest extremity he'll ever people arsenic helium ran done connected an unfastened net.

The 3rd was conscionable arsenic overmuch Szczesny's responsibility excessively arsenic helium came charging disconnected his enactment erstwhile again, this clip sliding astatine the feet of Benfica winger Karem Akturkoglu and bringing him to the crushed wrong the country for an undeniable penalty.

Pavlidis converted the spot-kick and Benfica were 3-1 up wrong 30 minutes.

But the enactment didn't halt determination with the 2nd fractional throwing up adjacent much goals, play and goalkeeping howlers.

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Benfica keeper Antoliy Trubin had intelligibly spent excessively agelong watching Szczesny up the different extremity successful the archetypal fractional and made possibly the worst goalkeeping mistake of the crippled aft the break.

Trubin tried to play the shot retired of his ain container aft making a prevention from a long-distance Gavi effort and got the full happening horribly wrong.

The Ukrainian goalkeeper deed his clearance consecutive into the caput of Barca's Raphinha, seeing the shot bounce close disconnected the Brazilian's caput and into the backmost of the net.

Trubin volition person been reasoning that helium could person tried that 100 much times and wouldn't person conceded, but the freak infinitesimal gave Barcelona a mode backmost into the crippled and had TNT Sports' commentator Ian Darke asking: "Have you ever seen a extremity similar that?"

Despite Benfica managing to spell up the different extremity and unit a Ronald Araujo ain extremity conscionable 4 minutes aboriginal to spell 4-2 up, Barcelona's freak extremity had fixed them a spark to combat backmost successful the game.

Goals from Lewandowski, Raphinha and Eric Garcia did conscionable that arsenic the Spanish giants turned it astir to people their victor successful the 96th infinitesimal of the clash.

All-in, the lucifer had 3 penalties, 9 goals, an ain goal, 3 calamitous goalkeeper errors, six bookings, a hat-trick leader and ended with Barcelona sealing their spot successful the adjacent circular of the competition.