{"id":538327,"date":"2026-03-15T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538327\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:33:08","slug":"raphinha-pulls-off-unique-penalty-feat-not-seen-in-a-decade-%f0%9f%8e%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538327\/","title":{"rendered":"Raphinha pulls off unique penalty feat not seen in a decade \ud83c\udfaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When big moments arrive, it&#8217;s crucial that the big stars can convert their opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Following Real Madrid&#8217;s emphatic 4-1 win over Elche on Saturday, Barcelona needed to ensure things went their way on Sunday to maintain a four-point advantage in LaLiga.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>So, only nine minutes into the clash with Sevilla, Raphinha made the most of his chance. And he did so in some style.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona were awarded a penalty, to which the Brazilian scored a cheeky Panenka beyond\u00a0Odysseas Vlachodimos.<\/p>\n<p>Then, roughly 10 minutes later, a handball in the box and a little help from VAR awarded the home side yet another spot-kick.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1c6e4d64ee5d6e2a81be3f0e47e5fdf6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The in-form Brazilian once again grabbed the ball and this time opted to send the ball low and into the bottom left corner, to which Vlachodimos chose correctly but couldn&#8217;t get a hand on it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This means\u00a0Raphinha is the sixth Barcelona player to score two penalties in a single LaLiga game in the 21st century and first in a decade (Patrick Kluivert in 2002, Samuel Eto\u2019o in 2005, Lionel Messi 2012 [twice] and 2014, Neymar in 2015 and Luis Su\u00e1rez in 2016.).<\/p>\n<p>Penalty dreamland for Bar\u00e7a!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When big moments arrive, it&#8217;s crucial that the big stars can convert their opportunities. Following Real Madrid&#8217;s emphatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1206,1205,49,48,184133,10618,10884,210433,146761,210432,35421,564,561,82],"class_list":["post-538327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elche","tag-laliga","tag-lionel-messi","tag-luis-suarez","tag-neymar","tag-odysseas-vlachodimos","tag-raphinha","tag-real-madrid","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}