Barcelona’s 2024/25 Champions League campaign couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start on Thursday.
Hansi Flick’s men make the trip to Monaco and find themselves down a man after only nine minutes and 32 seconds.
A miscommunication between Marc Andre ter Stegen and Eric Garcia saw the Spaniard forced off after registering the game’s first foul on Minamino.
The moment goes down as Barcelona’s earliest ever red card in the competition’s history, and it was also back-to-back sending offs for the club.
Barcelona’s last game on the big European stage saw Ronald Araujo earn his marching orders before they kicked off the new season with the same flash of a red card.