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Barcelona is experiencing its worst economic and sporting situation in recent years
The Barcelona team was clinging to a miracle against Bayern Munich, but the truth is that this miracle never came at the Allianz Arena, nor was it close to arriving. The Catalan team needed many coincidences to be able to get a good result and the truth is that there was a team with many shortcomings.
It is a team that requires a reconstruction that is more than necessary so that they can continue their path without having another disappointment, in this case with the Europa League. A competition that they will have to play after being eliminated from the Champions League, their worst debacle in the last 20 years.
A Barcelona that clung to Xavi's hope as a coach, but the truth is that you can change the coach and place the best in the world, but the reality is that the players are still the same. If your players do not contribute or score, it is very difficult to achieve favorable results and this is what happens with the Catalans right now.
Last elimination of Barcelona in the group stage of the Champions League
We have to go back to the 2000-2001 season to achieve a Barcelona failure of this type. At that time the Catalans were led by Serra Ferrer, who was unable to qualify for the round of 16 of the competition after finishing third.
At that time he was a group with Milan of Italy, Leeds and Besiktas. In that year, Barcelona finished fourth in the league table where they qualified for the next edition of the Champions League thanks to a Chilean goal by Rivaldo against Valencia.
Now, in the current season they are in seventh position, and they fight to try to get into the disputed area of the Champions League for next year. He is six points away from qualifying places. This would be one of the main objectives of the club, since if they did not qualify it would be a total failure for them.
Xavi wanted to make history
The Catalan coach was looking to make history in Germany against Munich, he looked very confident and sure that they could win despite the fact that Barcelona have never won at that stadium after five games, where he has 4 defeats and 1 draw.
Even both Xavi and his squad were confident that Dinamo Kiev would give them a hand by adding in Lisbon, but this was not the case, the possibility of qualifying for that result vanished after half an hour of play when the locals already won their match.
That was how Yaremchuk opened the scoring for Benfica in that game, forcing the Spanish to beat Germany. But Bayern Munich never came out with the intention of taking the game as a friendly despite being qualified.
If not the opposite, the German club were as competitive as ever, they wanted to finish with six victories and that was how Nagelsman formed a team of pure starters with Muller and Lewandowski willing to continue marking Barcelona. Two players who seem to have taken the measure of Barcelona.
The hope of the 20 million has faded
This elimination of Barcelona has not only cost them to be eliminated from the top European competition, but to this must also be added that they have lost the possibility of winning a large sum of money that could have helped them a lot with their current economic problem.
Barcelona not only had to fight in the Allianz Arena with the good football of the locals, but also be able to endure the intense cold and snow and the psychological pressure knowing that they have conceded 14 goals in three games against the Germans. The most painful of all was 2-8 in the Lisbon final.
On the other hand, Lewandoski tried to equalize Haller and be able to score in all the games of the group stage, but this time it was Muller who sank Barcelona with his goal in the first half hour of the game. Something normal for the German who has already scored 8 goals for Barça, one of his favorite victims in seven games.
Sané's goal to make it 2-0 and Benfica's second goal against Dinamo Kiev ended up sinking the Catalans, who at that time already knew that their chances of qualifying were almost nil. At that moment, Barcelona need three goals in the second half.
Everything indicated that Barça would need a historic comeback at the Allianz Arena where they had never won before and this would not be the exception. In addition, it is a stadium where Bayern Munich have not lost in the group stage of the Champions League since 2013. And this year they have only lost one game in the Bundesliga against Eintracht Frankfurt.
This defeat has clearly hurt Xavi Hernández's project with Barcelona, and that right now he has agreed with former Barça coach Ronald Koeman when he warned that "Staying at the top of the league would be a success and in the Champions League you can't expect a miracle".
This defeat for Xavi has seriously compromised the club's financial budget, which accounted for 20.2 million euros to reach the quarterfinals of the competition. Which was his goal and especially with the arrival of Xavi, who basically had that goal as his primary goal.
The prizes in the Europa League are much lower, so much so that Barça will have to win that tournament to be able to forget this figure as something lost, since by leaving champion they would be winning a similar figure.
Barcelona situation is worrying about everyone
The sporting situation of Barça right now worries everyone, in the Spanish League it continues from bad to worse, so many fears that this season will be a resounding failure for the club. Their qualification for the next Champions League is still at stake and if they do not add good results in the next matches, everything will be complicated.
Barça knows that they are not doing good football and the lack of a goal is their worst enemy. In addition, Xavi Hernández is taking on his first challenge as the coach of a big club such as Barcelona, he had only managed one club as a professional coach, so his role as a coach continues to generate many doubts.
So far Xavi has not been able to change many things, two wins only from the Barcelona bench. The coach will have to show what he is done and thus prevent his hiring for Barcelona from becoming a new failure for the club.
