Bayern Munich crush Barcelona in Champions League quarter-final

Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich: Barca were eliminated from the Champions League in disgrace for the fourth successive season. But, as bad as it’s been, this was still the worst yet

 

Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring Bayern's sixth goal ( Getty

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What was supposed to be the biggest game of these quarter-finals only ends up as a defeat of historic proportions, and may have immense consequences.

Bayern Munich proved their standing as Champions League favourites with a thoroughly commanding win where they didn’t even need to assert much control. And that’s why even that – the potential destination of the game’s finest trophy – paled next to the significance for Barcelona. Bayern’s ascendance only confirmed the downfall of this club, in another defeat of such magnitude it will surely be the last stand of this regime, and this era. It may well be the last straw for Lionel Messi, who is surely now considering his future.

The reality was the Argentine great was again left a mere passenger, as his team once more collapsed around him.

Barca were eliminated from the Champions League in disgrace for the fourth successive season. But, as bad as it’s been, this was still the worst yet.

It is damning to think that the 8-2 win Bayern eventually won by felt conservative, as if they had played within themselves.

Barca were so bad it was hard to read much into the German champions’ late procession.

More telling – particularly for Pep Guardiola, maybe on Wednesday – is what came before.

 The story of this 90 minutes and this side can really be reduced to nine minutes, and a storm of stunning intensity by Bayern, as they illustrated they may well be the team of the season.

 

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