(Bayern Munich-Barcelona 3-0) For the first time in 21 years, Barcelona has already been knocked out in the group stage of the Champions League.
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– This must be a turning point, says Barca coach Xavi after the match.
Today’s Barcelona manager Xavi Hernàndez played for the team that had to see both Milan and Leeds ahead of them after the group game in the autumn of 2000. Now it is Bayern Munich and Benfica who can look forward to Monday’s draw.
The Catalans will play the Europa League. Barcelona must be among the top four in La Liga to play in the Champions League next season. Right now they are in a 7th place in the series. They can qualify by winning the Europa League, but right now there is little indication that they will make it.
Against Bayern Munich tonight, Barcelona at least had sadly little to offer in a match they had to win.
– It is a degrading result and they had chances to make it worse. Right now we are not among the best teams in Europe, says stopper Ronald Aurajo to Movistar.
And when Benfica led 2-0 against Dynamo Kiev, while the Catalans themselves were behind with the same numbers at the break, they had to hope for a football miracle that never came.
– You have no God-given right to play in the Champions League. They have humiliated teams before, to see them struggle which is now difficult to watch. Seeing them in the Europa League is unthinkable, says former England striker Peter Crouch at BT Sport.
Has won old
After 34 minutes, Thomas Müller sent the corner kick right to Marc-André ter Stegen who headed it sharply past the keeper. Müller scored his 50th Champions League goal after a perfect pass from Robert Lewandowski, who played with Gerard Pique. Lewandowski had scored in all five Champions League matches, but tonight he had to settle for a goal-scorer.
Thomas Müller also scored in the first match against Barcelona (3-0 victory), and now he became the eighth player with 50 or more goals in the Champions League. He also has a good statistic against Barça: eight goals in seven games …
Two minutes before the break, Leroy Sané got time and space before he sent off a rush from just over 20 meters with his left foot. The Barcelona goalkeeper did not impress anyone with his attempt to stop the ball, and thus it was 2-0. He gets to share the blame with his own defense that never went under pressure on Sané.
Contrasts
18-year-old Jamal Musiala increased to 3-0 after just over an hour of play after Alphonso Davies got around the edge and past a stagnant Barcelona defense.
Barcelona created almost nothing in 90 minutes and went on their third (!) 3-0 loss in the group stage. With 2-9 in goal difference.
Bayern Munich have won all six group games once before. Now they have done it again. There is nothing to say about the goal difference: 22-3.
The contrast is great to the Barcelona team that won rubles and bits under Pep Guardiola from 2009.
In 2018, they lost a 4-1 lead against Roma in the knockout rounds, the following year they lost the 3-0 lead against Liverpool, before they were humiliated by Bayern Munich last summer by 8-2.
In 2022, they will not even play the playoffs in the Champions League.
The ancient kings of Europe have seriously abdicated.
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