He chose his evening well to shine. As if returning to French soil, for the very first time since he left Rennes for Leeds in the summer of 2020, had reminded Raphinha of good memories of an exercise in which he knows how to shine intermittently: scoring goals.
This is not his first quality, not where he is most consistent, but the performance he put out on Wednesday April 10, at the Parc des Princes against PSG, is notable in this regard: his first double with Barça was also his first since an evening in January 2020, when he (already) gave Rennes a 3-2 victory in Ligue 1 against FC Nantes.
