08/14/2020 - 17:59
- Clarín.com
- sports
There is always a first time ... In all aspects of life. And in football it also happens. Argentine Lionel Messi 's FC Barcelona has conceded 8 goals in a match for the first in the history of the European Champions Cup, or UEFA Champions League, as you prefer. They had never scored more than five goals to a Barcelona team with Messi on the pitch.
If it had happened to him in the Fairs Cup, where the Catalan team fell 6-2 against Valencia in 1962. And also in the UEFA Cup: 5-4 against Levski in 1976.
If the greatest ridicule in history had been the 4-0 suffered against Liverpool by Jurgen Klopp, at Anfield, when he was eliminated from the Champions League in an "unforgivable" way - according to his own "culé" fans - when the team had Ernesto Valverde on the bench, this blow is huge.
The German Bayern destroyed it and humiliated the team led by Lionel Messi. It was a nightmare night that will have consequences for the squad. It is already a fact that coach Quique Setién will be fired very soon from a bank that - he demonstrated - has been too big for him. But will not be the one...
JCH.