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FC Barcelona 4-1 Bayern Munich by the numbers

Five key stats that emerged from the famous win against the Bavarian giants

Barça fans haven't stopped talking about it. What happened on Wednesday against Bayern Munich has already gone down in club folklore. The team's nemesis of recent years was well and truly put to the sword by one of the finest blaugrana performances in recent memory. We can't stop thinking about it, so here are five more delicious nuggets of info to help savour the moment.

50,312

The crowd that watched the game was the biggest ever for a Barça match at the Estadi Olimpic, but by the most extraordinarily tightest of margins. The 50,312 spectators topped the 50.309 that came to last season's game with Paris St Germain by just three people! 

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Robert Lewandowski has scored that many goals in the Champions League, although last night was the first time he'd scored against a German team, and none other than his former club. Fermín López provided the assist for him to beat his old friend and ex-teammate Manuel Neuer. 

2

Fermín López also gave the assist for Raphinha's opening goal, a wonderful way to mark his return to the starting XI after missing most of the season through injury.

At 21 years and 165 days, he became the second youngest player to make two assists for Barça in the same Champions League match, topped only by Isaac Cuenca, who was 20 years and 223 days old when he did likewise against BATE Borisov in 2011.

56 

Raphinha scored the opener after just 56 seconds, the second quickest Barça goal in Champions League history. Van Bommel still holds the outright record for his goal after just 36 seconds in 2005. 

It was also the second Raphinha hat-trick not only of the season but of his entire career. The Brazilian also got three of the seven against Real Valladolid. It makes him the fourth Brazilian to get a hat-trick for Barça in the Champions League, following on from Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Neymar

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3,458 days

Barça had not beaten the Bavarians since May of 2015, when Messi (2) and Neymar scored in a 3-0 win. The teams had met five times since then, with Bayern winning every time. And that is why Wednesday's win was so special. The ghosts have finally been condemned to the past. 

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