Bayern 3-Barcelona 0 | The Barça resigns of the elite

Barça staged their resignation from the football elite in a display of all their shortcomings when they fell without complaint against a Bayern Munich that, again in third gear and without giving the feeling of wanting to humiliate, dislodged Barça 3-0 with the attitude of a tired tiger who is lazy to hunt a baby gazelle, but that fulfills what nature expects of him. The Barça, on the other hand, goes back to dark times of more than two decades.

The challenge was enormous, if not impossible. It was about winning where Barça never before, nor its best version (so far from the current one) had won; It was about trusting that a player like Demebélé, who had not been a starter so far this season and who has been chaining casualties for four years, would make the game of the century. Barcelona were also confident that their forward reference would score his first goal in the Champions League. And all in the worst place and against the worst rival. And of course, in the face of so much assumption, football put Barcelona back in its place, which is none other than being away from the European elite for a season.

Barça started their way to the Europa League the day they were unable to beat Benfica at their stadium, all the rest was to light candles in Montserrat, in the Munich Cathedral or even in the star of the Sagrada Família that was lit an hour before the game.

Despite all the pronouncements to the contrary, Xavi’s team once again proposed a brave staging in which he wanted to play on the German ground, putting pressure on Nagelsmann’s team, who unfortunately for the Blaugrana aligned a team with many more starters than expected. Regarding the match that opened the league at the Camp Nou, only two players were changed: Goretzka and Kimmich.

At Barça, on the other hand, Xavi copied Dest’s system as an extreme to the reviled Koeman with the same result -that is, none- he placed Dembélé at the top where it was little more than foam and he risked lining up Jordi Alba, who arrived touched.

The Barcelona side lasted half an hour without injuring himself. Mingueza entered his post and there began the Barcelona disaster. Until then, Barça had endured the game more or less decently with some approach to Neuer’s area, but the duel was increasingly favoring the locals. Ter Stegen gave the usual funk symptoms of when he captures the aroma of Neuer and Lewandoski had forgiven a goal of those that he does not usually concede.

As soon as Mingueza left to face Coman, the French striker began to torture him with his careers for the band. Four minutes after entering he crossed for Musiala to finish off with a header, six minutes later the one who crossed was Lewandoski and before the passivity of Mingueza and Lenglet, Müller gave them a Ptopian love course to finish off a ball that Ter Stegen saw static as it entered despite the attempt to remove it from Araújo, the only one who moved.

On the edge of the break, Coman sat down again with Mingueza to associate with Sané, who from afar scored the second before the feeling that Ter Stegen returned to eat the goal.

With 2-0 in Munich and 2-0 in Lisbon, the miracle seemed clear that it was unattainable, what was not so clear was to leave that stadium with a worthy result, because the feeling was that Bayern could score as many as they wanted, as Bayern showed in the first play of the second half when Sané forgave the third.

Nico entered by Dest to try to avoid the German avalanche. But it was not necessary nor avalanche, Bayern by inertia came to Ter Stegen’s area and created occasions like the one he is training. And so came the third, from Musiala in a play by Davies against Araújo.

The last 20 minutes could be made eternal for the Blaugrana, but Nagelsmann took his cubs to roll and ended up playing with a youth team against even greener than them.