09/14/2021 18:33
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 9/14/2021 6:33 PM
It is not necessary to be a fortune teller to assert that Barcelona will be another very different from the one it was with Lionel Messi. That is why there is no party in the stands of the Camp Nou, which once again received public for UEFA competitions after 22 months (half of the capacity was enabled); That is why the culé cast is reduced to a minimum before the might of Bayern Munich; that's why there are whistles to dismiss the team after an expressionless game; That is why the sponsors Rakuten and Beko warn that they will not continue in the club while the authorities of Paris Saint Germain welcome Dior, EA Sports and Crypto.com with open arms.
For Barcelona's supporters, the era began without Lionel Messi and the positive is that they are perfectly aware that it will take a lot for the team to compete internationally.
The 3-0 against the Germans
was
just
a sample
.
Something is too obvious:
Barcelona will suffer while looking for love after love
.
Nostalgic Catalans will not be able to see Barcelona every time they face a powerful player from Europe. The image is reversed: before, for so many years, Barça subdued top rivals and made them play in their own area; now, it is the 11 Barcelona footballers who will take refuge near their goalkeeper. It is true that Bayern Munich is a devastating team and even with Messi the story would not have been different. It is worth remembering 8-2 of the 2020 Champions League, which was the straw that caused the burofax that La
Pulga
sent
to leave the institution.
Two facts about the match on this first night of the Champions League without Messi for the culé: it
is the first time they have finished a match in this competition without making a shot on goal
and they had not lost in a debut for 24 years, when they fell 3-2 against Newcastle in September 1997.
FAV if this goal from Muller is saving your combine.
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- Apostala (@Apostalapy) September 14, 2021
Bayern passed it over to Barça.
The Germans were the absolute masters of the game
and beat their rivals on all lines and in all sections.
The Teutons handled the ball, generated several goal situations, recovered the ball more, played more aggressively.
It was the match of a team that is known to be superior against another that is recognized as inferior.
This is a dance.
Lewandowski with that scoring instinct that every 9 has to have.
Bayern Munich 2-0 Barcelona.
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- Tomiconcina🎙 (@ Tomiconcina1) September 14, 2021
The eternal Thomas Müller scored the first at 34 of the initial stage: he received only in the crescent of the area and finished off the goal after a deflection in Eric García.
At that moment Barcelona collapsed because what Ronald Koeman had planned was falling.
He played to tie the premises.
It did not come out.
Since then the whistles accompanied the game.
Nothing improved for the local in the complement.
It even got worse because the Germans were finer in the important passes and were able to capture superiority in situations.
It was 11 minutes when Robert Lewandowski plugged the right boot to a rebound off the post from a violent shot by youthful Jamal Musiala.
How calm Lewandowski has inside the area.
I leave Piqué sitting and Bayern Munich now wins 3-0.
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- Tomiconcina🎙 (@ Tomiconcina1) September 14, 2021
Koeman sent all the youth of La Masía to the field and it was like a request for mercy for the public.
But it mattered little to Bayern who kept looking.
And at the end came the double of Lewandowski, who returned to capture a rebound off the post, this time from the entered Gnabry.
Yes, more area 9 than the Polish is not achieved.
It was beaten against by Barcelona in the first presentation without the
Flea
for the Champions League.
The inevitable happened.
And it will happen again in the next presentations.
Because it is not free to separate from Messi.
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