Barcelona crushed Olympiacos with hat-tricks from Fermin Lopez and Marcus Rashford, who now has four goals from three Champions League games.
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Barcelona crushed Olympiacos with hat-tricks from Fermin Lopez and Marcus Rashford, who now has four goals from three Champions League games. Barcelona crushed Olympiacos with hat-tricks from Fermin Lopez and Marcus Rashford , who now has four goals from three Champions League games. Lopez put Barcelona ahead with two deft first-half goals before a quick Olympiacos comeback was cut short by a Rashford double and a penalty from Lamine Yamal . When goalie Konstantinos Tzolakis blocked the ball but was unable to hold it, Lopez was there to score past the defenders on the goal-line after Yamal had been played through on goal in the seventh minute. The Spanish midfielder doubled Barcelona's lead half an hour later when he ran on to Dro Fernandez 's ball into space, cut inside and curled a left-footed strike into the left corner. The second half began in bizarre circumstances. Ayoub El Kaabi thought he had halved the deficit with a header, but after checking on the pitchside monitor, referee Urs Schnyder chalked off the goal for offside and instead awarded the visitors a penalty for a handball by Eric Garcia , which El Kaabi co…