The era after Messi began with a lesson from Bayern. Barcelona is a sports corpse, the Catalans admit

Barcelona’s Memphis Depay after defeating Bayern at the start of the Champions League.

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All this is covered by the headlines of Catalan newspapers and web portals after the loss of Barcelona to Munich Bayern 0: 3 in the opening duel of the basic group Champions League.

Just by chance:

Barcelona is a sports corpse. You are zero. A small team, the worst ever to play at Camp Nou. The game is even worse than the result. There was nothing left of that.

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman.

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The dream of the reconstruction and continuing domination of Barcelona over world football, which the then bosses of the club came up with in the 2019/2020 season, is in ruins. At the time, they shouted loudly that the club’s budget would exceed one billion euros and would be the highest ever registered by the sports world. It will help Barcelona to continue its dominance. To sovereignty that none of the competitors will even come close to.

Soon after, however, a coronavirus pandemic and fanfare plans came along, and spectacular notions of domination turned to dust.

He received a severe blow from Ronald and then a reward

Barcelona, ​​who has lived out of reality until then, is drowning in unbelievable debts.

Griezmann left, who scored almost half of the goals that Barcelona scored last season. Lionel Messi, who had become synonymous with Barcelona over the years at Camp Nou, had to be sold.

And the very first confrontation in the Champions League was enough to find out how the Catalan giant would be without them. Especially when it came to confrontation with Bayern, who had already managed to transform coach Nagelsmann into his own image.

However, the Munich team also won smoothly and easily, while still acting as if they did not want to get too tired before the next matches, the commentators reminded of the diametrical difference between the game of both teams.

They also noticed the difference between Polish sniper Robert Lewandowski and the Dutch legion in Barcelona jersey Memphis Depay, Frankie de Jong and Luuk de Jong.

Not to mention that Lewandowski trained goalkeeper Ter Stegen with two goals, while the Dutch legionnaires did not shoot at the goal at all. But none of their teammates did, but Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer turned into a spectator.

“There were 39,398 of them at Camp Nou. 31,000 with club IDs, 8,397 with tickets and more Neuer,” Captain Gerard Piqué, coach Ronald Koeman and club boss Joan Laporta could read ironic remarks.

“It is a heavy defeat. It’s especially bad to lose so high at home, “Gerard Piqué admitted after another lesson his team had to bite in the Champions League home game. Juventus, so he didn’t score a point in three games, with a terrifying score of 1:10 speaking for itself.

“The reality is as it is. In fact, I don’t even know how many seventeen or eighteen-year-old teenagers in our team ended up playing. When they grow up and gain experience, we will be more competitive, “Piqué, 34, reminded that seventeen-year-old Gavi and Balde or Pedri and Demir played against Lewandowski, Müller, Kimmich, Neuer and co.

In this context, it is really no wonder that Barcelona lost only 0: 3 and did not turn out the same as last August, when it caught a 2: 8 beating from Bayern in the quarterfinals.

By the way, the 33-year-old Lewandowski contributed one goal to him at the time, while on Tuesday night he added two, so with 75 goals in the Champions League he was already behind Ronald and Messi.

“I’ve heard that these were the easiest goals I scored in the Champions League, but it’s a speculative claim. In such situations, it is enough to be at the ball half a second later and there is nothing from the shooting opportunity, “Lewandowski defended the remarks that it is not a problem to score current Barcelona goals.

It’s a football corpse. Absolutely zero. Under Koeman, the worst team ever played at Camp Nou, according to the Catalans themselves.

But what wonders can coach Koeman offer with a sold-out and decimated team? What else can he promise but be better again?

“When Agüero, Dembélé, Ansu Fati recover in a few weeks. When they reach the age of eighteen, nineteen-year-old boys. When we have as good a staff as Bayern. Except that we will be as good physically as the Germans. When I don’t have to talk about the same thing week after week, “he just tactfully reminded that in today’s Barcelona the criteria are economic and financial, not sports.

Not to mention that when the current rainbow of the club is 1.35 billion euros, ie 34.5 billion crowns, even President Joan Laporta describes the situation as dramatic.