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Robert Lewandowski beats Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to amazing Champions League record with Barcelona hat-trick


ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI became the first player to score a Champions League hat-trick for three clubs as Barcelona thrashed Viktoria Plzen 5-1 in Group C.

Franck Kessie nodded his first Barca goal to get them off to a flyer.

Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick for Barcelona and made Champions League historyCredit: Rex

Lewandowski then got off the mark for the night with 34 minutes on the clock.

He added a second in the dying seconds of the first half.

That was moments after Jan Sykora had pulled one back for Plzen.

But the onslaught continued following the break as Barcelona and Lewandowski added to their tallies.

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The Pole took his Champions League tally to 89 on 67 minutes to claim the matchball.

This hat-trick now goes to his previous trebles for Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

And it continued to get even better for Barcelona as Ferran Torres completed the rout with a fifth.

Meanwhile, Bayern won 2-0 at Inter in the same group.

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That was thanks to Leroy Sane’s stunner and Danilo D’Ambrosio’s own goal.

In Group B, Atletico Madrid’s Mario Hermoso scored in stoppage time against Porto then gave away a penalty, which Mateus Uribe converted.

But Antoine Griezmann nodded Atletico’s winner in the ELEVENTH minute of injury-time as the Spanish hosts beat ten-man Porto 2-1.

That was after Mehdi Taremi was shown a second yellow for diving.


Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk


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