It seemed difficult to beat Anfield and fall lower, but it seems that there is no challenge that this team cannot overcome. If in Anfield the debacle came after a 3-0 and after a more than worthy first half, against Bayern the historic catastrophe was cooked from the first minute. So disaster was the game that within half an hour, with 1-4 on the scoreboard, more than one already signed that result because the destruction threatened to acquire gigantic proportions. In the end, 2-8 is a planetary humiliation that will shake the Camp Nou.
The lessons that can be drawn from the wiggle that Barça suffered are varied, another thing is if they will be of any use, because so far the previous warnings, which have been very clear, have not been of any use. What's more, they have been ignored and Bartomeu and his people have continued driving in the opposite direction, thinking that the others were wrong.
The first reading is that the first sensations are the good ones. When the crossing against the Germans was known, everyone saw the company as almost impossible for Barça. As the days went by, optimism grew stronger because football is an illusion, but deep down and once again, castles were built in the air.
The other reading is that it is not necessary for Bayern legends to come to sting anyone's pride. The Blaugrana team did not fall due to German arrogance, they fell due to their own incompetence.
Setién re-designed a team that comes to leave the press conference of its presentation as a joke in bad taste. If you listen again to what the Cantabrian technician said in his presentation and then contemplate his work, you will better understand what the sellers of snake ointment were in the Far West. He bet on a 4-4-2 sacrificing Griezmann and without news of the young people, or of the extremes, or of the intention to dominate the game, or anything. I was only looking to sleep the game and not even that they knew how to do.
The departure of the ball from Barcelona was a Greek tragedy that invited Bayern from the beginning to steal the ball from Barcelona to crucify a Neuer who gave the impression of being overcome by the situation from the beginning.
Busquets lost three balls in the first three minutes of the game and in the third Lewandowski connected with Müller, who struck the first stab. Barça gave the swan song in the following minutes, but more due to errors by the Germans than due to their own merits. The Bavarians were so abundant that they allowed themselves the boast of putting the defense line on the center line of the field. When they surpassed them, the Barça threatened danger. In one of those arrivals, Alba beat Kimmich's back and Alaba slipped her center into her own door. There seemed to be hope, but it was a cruel mirage. The worst was yet to come in ten minutes of German gale in which Bayern crushed Barcelona.
Bayern were unfazed by the draw, they put their pressure forward and the Barça defense fell apart like a sugarcane. Like someone fishing in a bowl, Bayern's strikers just had to wait for the fish to bite on their own, that is to say that the Barça defense lost the ball to shoot Ter Stegen. Perisic, Gnabry and Müller scored three in nine minutes and if they weren't more it was because Lewandowski didn't seem to have the day. Barça thanked the break as a gift from heaven.
In the resumption, Setién retired to Sergi Roberto to give entrance to Griezmann, but the Bayern in spite of lowering a march continued dominating a party in which the Barça agitated with a stroke of genius of Suárez that supposed the 2-4.
Two things could happen to that goal: either Barça reacted from the bench and threatened Bayern or the Germans reacted. What happened is that Setién was paralyzed and Bayern before the Blaugrana goal returned to raise the revolutions and six minutes later Davies portrayed Semedo so that Kimmich could score the fifth. From side to side. There was half an hour left and the ridicule could be greater. The thing was already dignity, but it seemed that it depended more on the piety of Bayern than on culé pride as it was clear with Coman failing the sixth on empty goal. But inertia played against the Blaugrana and Lewandowski in 82 and Coutinho, yes, the most expensive signing in the club's history, in 86 sealed 2-7 and three minutes later 2-8. Barça has settled in hell.