Robert Lewandowski created Champions League history against Borussia Dortmund to all-but seal Barcelona's passage into the semi-finals.
The veteran striker scored twice against his former employers in the Blaugrana's 4-0 win in their quarter-final first leg tie at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys.
Lewandowski brought up his tenth and 11th goals in Europe's premier competitions this season in the 48th and 66th minute respectively.
In doing so, the 36-year-old has become the first person to score at least ten goals in a single Champions League campaign for three different clubs.
The Poland international banged in ten goals for BVB in the 2012/13 season, before hitting double digits in both the 2019/20 and 2021/22 seasons while at Bayern Munich.
And in what is his third year with Barca, he has finally notched in at least ten goals in Europe.
Not even Cristiano Ronaldo could manage that, having only hit double digits at Real Madrid despite also representing Manchester United and Juventus in the competition.
Lewandowski is now on 40 strikes for the season in all competitions, and is just one goal shy of hitting a century for the Spanish side.
Incredibly, Lewandowski has scored more goals against Dortmund than any other side - a cruel pill to swallow for fans who worshipped him during his four-year stay at Signal Iduna Park between 2010-2014.
The centre forward, who won two Bundesliga titles under Jurgen Klopp's tutelage, has now fired in 29 times against Dortmund from 28 appearances.
Not wanting to be overshadowed by Lewandowski, his teammate Raphinha also wrote himself into the record books.
The Brazilian winger broke the deadlock in the 25th minute, before notching up two assists - for Lewandowski and Lamine Yamal.
In doing so, he now boasts a whopping 19 goal involvements in the Champions League this term.
With 12 goals, he is the competition's leading scorer, while no other player has recorded more than his seven assists.
The former Leeds fan favourite has now equalled Lionel Messi's Barcelona record of registering 19 goal involvements in a single Champions League season.
Messi created club history in the 2011/12 campaign where he found the back of the net on 14 occasions, while laying on five goals for his teammates.
And Raphinha will be looking to have the record for his own when Barcelona face Dortmund in Germany next week.
With Barcelona already having one foot in the last-four, he could also break the record in a possible semi-final tie against either Bayern or Inter Milan.
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