Barcelona returned with a bang — a merciless 6-0 demolition of Valencia in LaLiga as Fermín López, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski each grabbed doubles in a night of attacking brilliance that leaves Barça roaring into the Champions League week.
Barcelona, Sep 15, 2025 — It started as a tidy, controlled evening and exploded into a full-blown offensive spectacle. Barça returned to winning ways in emphatic style, running Valencia ragged in a 6-0 rout punctuated by two goals apiece from Fermín López, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski. The result jolts Barcelona up to second in LaLiga and arrives just as their attention turns to a Champions League trip to Newcastle.
The hosts dominated the tempo from the off without the injured Lamine Yamal, probing patiently and carving chances. Barcelona’s early swagger produced a neat sequence in which López slipped the ball to Ferran Torres; Torres charged through and clipped a shot onto the roof of the net — a warning sign that Valencia’s defence would be tested. Julen Agirrezabala kept Valencia afloat with a couple of sharp saves, denying Koundé’s flick from a corner and parrying an effort from López, but the opener was inevitable. In the 29th minute, Torres’ brilliant touch directed the ball to López, who smashed a low finish into the bottom corner from a tight angle to break the deadlock.
After the break the game flung open. In the 53rd minute Raphinha capitalised on a dangerous cross — originally whipped in by Marcus Rashford according to the report — and the winger’s scuffed effort squirmed into the corner to make it 2-0. Barely three minutes later López found space centrally and rifled a shot from distance that Agirrezabala could only get a fingertip to as the ball screamed into the bottom corner — 3-0 and the floodgates were well and truly open.
Raphinha pounced again in the 66th minute, exploiting a defensive misunderstanding at the back and hammering the ball into the net, while a swift Barcelona move saw Dani Olmo tee up Robert Lewandowski only ten minutes later; the striker hammered a sublime finish into the top corner to add gloss to the scoreline. Lewandowski’s second — initially ruled out for offside before being overturned — arrived in the 86th minute to seal the emphatic 6-0 victory.
Fermín López was the architect of a controlled opening and the scorer of two classic strikes, Raphinha’s brace underlined his venom on the flank, and Lewandowski’s late double added the ruthless finishing touch. Barcelona’s all-round display — composed in possession, clinical in transition, and brutal in the final third — sent a loud message ahead of European duty.
