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Champions League: Bayern win 3-0 in Barcelona

AAt entrance 15 in front of the Camp Nou in Barcelona, ​​a man was standing behind a large table. He sold caps, scarves and especially jerseys there. There were many on his table with the number 10. They were not provided with the name Fati, like Ansu Fati, the soccer player who later wore this number in the stadium, but with Messi, like Lionel Messi, the soccer player whom quite a few for hold the greatest in history.

On Tuesday evening, FC Barcelona played the first Champions League game of a new era. It started when Lionel Messi left the city a month ago, even though his old shirt was now not only in front of the stadium, but also in it. The fans who wore it clapped for Memphis Depay, the striker who is supposed to replace Messi at least in part but couldn’t even begin to.

And when the first round game against FC Bayern Munich ended 3-0 – the goals were scored by Thomas Müller (34th minute) and Robert Lewandowski (56th, 85th) – some of the 40,000 fans even whistled. They had seen a game in which their team was overwhelmed in their own stadium.

It has been 13 months since FC Bayern and FC Barcelona last played against each other. And if you want to understand the state in which their teams met on Tuesday, you have to remember the fabulous 8: 2 from back then. In Lisbon, where the organizers of the Champions League ventured out of the corona lockdown with a final tournament, Bayern played in the quarter-finals so quickly and so willingly that the Catalans, who shaped European football in this century, collapsed as a team.

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