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Xavi's Barcelona is eliminated from the Champions League after losing to Bayern
What everyone expected has happened, FC Barcelona has been defeated this Wednesday against Bayern Munich in Germany after losing 3 goals by 0, in the last corresponding match for the group stage of the Champions League, which has been their last night in this edition of Champions.
In this way, the Barça team today led by Xavi Hernández has been left out of the top competition in Europe and will now have to play in the Europa League. He was up against a team that has won everything so far and is running as one of the candidates to win the tournament.
Bayern Munich a team far superior to 90 minutes
The German team only needed 45 minutes to go ahead 2 goals to 0 and send Barcelona to the ravine, a Spanish team that only needed a miracle to be able to reverse the marking, something that never came or would come, so they will last playing 24 hours more.
Barcelona once again saw little insistence and lack of clarity, this was how they approached the German goal, but without generating danger. In this way, the great problem of the team has been reflected, which is still the lack of a goal.
Without a goal there is no triumph, and it is something that the entire squad, Xavi and the club president know. This is how the Catalan club has run out of the money it would charge to go to the round of 16, money that the club needed at the moment.
20 years without being eliminated in the group stage
The last time Barcelona had been eliminated in the group stage of the Champions League was in 2001. So it took 20 years for history to repeat itself, something that a year ago was impossible to handle.
Barcelona has become one of the best teams in all of Europe and a club that is always a candidate to win the title, but this time Barça will not be able to fight until the end. This has been sentenced by the Bayern Munich team who have crushed the Spanish in both games of the group stage.
So Barça will aim for the Europa League, but to try to go far it will be necessary to improve, since in this competition there are teams of very good level right now, so it will not be easy either.
Bayern has been much superior to Barça
Simply put, Bayern have done what they wanted with Barcelona and not only in this game, but also in that game at the Camp Nou. This time not even the signing of Xavi Hernández has been able to change that reality.
Barça had quite an acceptable first 20 minutes, where they showed the arrivals from the left of Jordi Alba and Ousmane Dembélé, but all this would change with the passing of the minutes, a Barça that was dissolving on the field of play.
This is how the Catalan club dissolved on the pitch while Bayern became more and more imposing in the game. So much so that it allowed them to close the group stage with six wins in six games.
For now, the German club has proven to be an unstoppable machine in the competition and continues to be one of the greatest executioners of Barcelona, a Spanish club that is finding it increasingly difficult to beat Bayern Munich.
Xavi Hernández is not a miracle for Barça
Barça seems not to raise its head even with the arrival of Xavi Hernández, the former player was seen with a miracle for the club after his arrival, but after several games it seems that he is no longer seen that way. So far Barcelona has not shown great improvement.
He continues to have the same lack of goal and danger that he had with Ronald Koeman and Sergi. A team that right now does not cause any danger to its rivals and that fights in every game not to be a sneak in the defensive part.
If there is something to highlight, it is the defensive improvement of the team after the arrival of Xavi to the bench, but it is not that there is much difference either and the results have shown it. This Wednesday Bayern Munich had to do very little to beat the Catalan club.
Barcelona is not capable of shooting at the rival goal and if it does, it is quite deviant, this time not even the changes of the team have been enough to make the eleven players on the field get into the game. At 62 minutes Bayern were already winning 3 goals by 0, a match for the Spanish that was already over.
Many would think of one of those epic comebacks, but this time it was not, the club does not have players capable of doing these feats right now as happened in the past with Luis Suárez, Neymar and Messi up front.
Lisbon was the hope of the culés
Barcelona not only had their eyes on their game, they were even more aware of what was happening in Lisbon than in their own game. From the beginning, the fans and the squad knew that beating Bayern was an almost impossible mission, so they only depended on a Benfica defeat to qualify.
However, in that match, Dinamo Kiev did not play in favor of Barça, and they missed a clear goal chance just beginning the game, a goal that could have changed history in that match and for Barcelona in the Champions League.
But a few minutes later Benfica had already won 2 goals to 0 and with that victory Barça only used to win to qualify. To win he only had to score 4 goals against Bayern Munich, a practically impossible task for Barça and for any other club.
The Catalans were consuming defeat and elimination at the same time that the illusion was running out. First, when Muller's goal arrives, finishing off against the defense posts of the Spanish club Mingueza and Lenglet, two players that many still do not understand as part of the club.
Then Sane's goal would arrive with a missile that he could do has been deflected by Ter Stegen, but that did not arrive. And in the end Musiala would culminate a Tiki Taka baravaro. The good collective game that Barcelona taught us now is not theirs.
Barcelona has never been able to win in Munich and this is something that was not going to change and even less now when they are experiencing their worst sporting moment, they have already had four defeats and a draw.
Bayern Munich had the casualties of Kimmichm Goretzka and Gnabry and that the game will be played behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Catalans were not able to take advantage of this and get into the fight to at least dream of the pass to the round of 16 until the end.
This has led Barcelona to have to get excited about the second course on the table, a Europa League that is made up of teams that cannot win their leagues or overcome the group stage of the Champions League.
The last time the club played in this competition was in the 2003/2004 season where they were eliminated in the round of 16. Barça has never been able to win this competition, but this time it can serve as a tournament that helps them prepare a better team and find the level they were used to.
