Perfect Champions League preliminary round for FC Bayern: sixth game, sixth win. FC Barcelona is once again completely inferior.
This crash is gradual, but it continues to progress. After the 3-0 debacle from the first leg, the loses FC Barcelona also the second leg of the Champions League-Group phase against the FC Bayern clear – 3-0 it is again in the end. Doubly bitter for Barça: defeat is tantamount to falling into the Europe Leaguebecause Benfica beat Kiev 2-0 in the other group game. The premier football league without Barcelona? Actually unthinkable a short time ago.
However, the game against Bayern made one thing clear: FC Barcelona no longer belongs – as of now – to the top floor of European football and is inferior to the German record champions in almost all respects. Even the German national goalkeeper Marc-André ter Stegen can now be infected by it, fails at 0: 2. In this context, one can also praise Leroy Sané’s shooting technique (43rd).
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Thomas Müller took Bayern into the lead after just over half an hour (34th). It is his 50th goal in the Champions League.
In the second half a similarly dominant picture of Bayern. Sané leaves the 3-0 up (46th), Jamal Musiala then makes it better after 62 minutes. And Barcelona? Play along, but no longer. “We played well, but everything wasn’t perfect. We could have done more,” said Müller at DAZN.
For the German record champions it is the sixth win in their sixth game – a perfect group stage. The Champions League round of 16 will be drawn on Monday (12 noon in Nyon). FC Bayern shouldn’t be the best for all possible opponents.