📅 05/03/25🕒 20:00🏟️ Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica🧑⚖️ F. Zwayer
Biggest Swing+1.61 xT61' RaphinhaCards6
Benfica 0-1 Barcelona — xTears 11.38 (05/03/25)
Barcelona won 0-1 against Benfica on 5 March 2025 in the Round of 16 of the Champions League, even with the xTears split tilting slightly the other way. Total damage: 11.38 xTears.
Even with the xTears split leaning slightly the other way, the heaviest moments for Barcelona still ran through Raphinha at 61' goal (+1.61 xT) and Pau Cubarsí Paredes at 22' red card (+1.36 xT).
The scoreboard and xTears did not tell exactly the same story: Barcelona punished better without fully owning the emotional volume.
How It Unfolded
Timeline
22'
Red card
Pau Cubarsí Paredes - Barcelona
61'
Goal
Raphinha - Barcelona
All-out war
🟥
6.10
22'
Red card
+1.36 xT
Pau Cubarsí Paredes - Barcelona
90+1'
Yellow card
+1.22 xT
João Pedro Seno Luís Rêgo - Benfica
73'
Yellow card
+0.99 xT
Álvaro Fernández - Benfica
45+2'
Yellow card
+0.86 xT
Íñigo Martínez - Barcelona
Absolute chaos
🧨
3.89
61'
Goal
+1.61 xT
Raphinha - Barcelona
22'
Red card
+1.36 xT
Pau Cubarsí Paredes - Barcelona
84'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
Arthur Cabral for V. Pavlidis - Benfica
84'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
Renato Sanches for O. Kökçü - Benfica
Late drama
🔥
2.14
90+1'
Yellow card
+1.22 xT
João Pedro Seno Luís Rêgo - Benfica
84'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
Arthur Cabral for V. Pavlidis - Benfica
84'
Substitution
+0.46 xT
Renato Sanches for O. Kökçü - Benfica
Referee scandal
🧑⚖️
1.36
22'
Red card
+1.36 xT
Pau Cubarsí Paredes - Barcelona
Cruelty
😈
Never really sparked
0
Nothing big fed this one.
Crushed hope
💔
Never really sparked
0
Nothing big fed this one.