Barcelona star set a new Champions League club record in victory over Benfica | OneFootball

Barcelona star Wojciech Szczęsny secured for himself a special piece of club history on Wednesday night.

This comes owing to the Pole’s performance between the posts in Barca’s Champions League showdown with Benfica.

Hansi Flick’s troops are of course fresh off securing an altogether impressive result.

After making the trip to Lisbon for a Last-16 first-leg meeting with the aforementioned Benfica, the Blaugrana found themselves with their backs to the wall, down to 10 men inside the opening 25 minutes following Pau Cubarsí’s dismissal.

The Catalans, though, scraped and clawed their way through the remainder of the clash, before thanking a moment of individual quality on the part of Raphinha for the game’s decisive moment.

And yet, as alluded to above, it was another member of Hansi Flick’s squad who truly stole the show this evening.

Afforded his latest starting berth at the Estádio da Luz, Wojciech Szczęsny rolled back the years, conjuring up a remarkable performance to hold Benfica at bay.

The former Arsenal man racked up eight saves over the course of the clash, enough to etch his name into the history books.

As revealed by statisticians Opta:

‘Wojciech Szczesny made eight saves against Benfica, a record for any FC Barcelona goalkeeper without conceding a goal in a single ChampionsLeague game since (records began in) at least the 2003/04 season.

Conor Laird – GSFN