Tiktuknu: summary of the day's events in sports, 25.11 (Sport1)
Barcelona is not the Spanish national team and Bayern Munich is not the German national team, but each club had five representatives in the national teams last week in the opening round.
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Jordi Alba, Fran Torres, Gabi, Pedro and Sergio Busquets started for Luis Enrique.
Three more from Barcelona remained on the bench: Enso Fati, Eric Garcia and the last invitee Alejandro Balda, who also came up as a substitute for the left back position.
Xavi sent eight players to the team, so similar to the days when he himself played in La Rocha.
The magical days.
Xavi was not the only one from Barcelona then.
That team of Vicente del Bosque and before that coach Luis Aragones won three titles.
Euro 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012. No team knew how to do such a sequence.
These were four years of total superiority.
If there is something that connects that wonderful team with the one now playing in Qatar, it is the presence of the Barcelona players.
Busquets can make comparisons.
He was then and he is today.
The high victory over Costa Rica last Wednesday, can still teach nothing.
We saw England hit Iran for six here and thought this was their tournament, but the other night they barely got a draw from the United States.
Spain wants to be different and after the 0:7 in the first round, she will want to give another reason to count her towards the rest of the tournament.
Barcelona's players should once again be Enrique's base.
It is important for the national team, it is even more important for Barcelona.
He can make comparisons.
Sergio Busquets with Luis Enrique (Photo: Reuters)
Even if Barcelona and Bayern do not represent the national teams of Spain and Germany, they are a microcosm of La Rocha and the Manschaft and in the last two years, the advantage is clear.
It's not an advantage.
It's a knockout.
There have been five meetings in the last two years between Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Bayern won all five.
The goal ratio is 2:19 for the Bavarians.
Only in a defeat that will be remembered for years on August 14, 2020 did Barcelona score a pair of goals against the eight.
In the four other meetings in the last two years that were in the group stage of the Champions League, Bayern defeated without Barcelona finding the back of the net.
Three times the result was repeated 0:3 for the Germans.
So it is true that Spain as a team knew how to beat Germany in that period of time.
The last meeting between the two was in Seville exactly two years ago in the Nations League and if Germany are looking for reasons to take revenge tonight, they have the six they suffered in that one-sided encounter.
Fran Torres in his best game for the Spanish national team scored a hat trick.
Albero Morata was also among the conquerors.
Before that there were mostly friendlies, but Spain's memories of meeting Germany in major tournaments are too good.
The last meeting between the two in the World Cup was in 2010 in Durban, South Africa.
It was in the semi-finals and Carles Puyol scored to send Spain into the final and from there with Andres Iniesta's goal to take the only World Cup they have.
Two years earlier in the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Germany and Spain met in the Euro final.
Fernando Torres scored in the 33rd minute and Spain won the championship.
Both of these giant encounters were controlled by Spain.
It was the greatest Spain ever.
Spain with seven Barcelona players in the squad.
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Suffered against Bayern in all the last meetings, don't want it to happen against Germany.
Jordi Alba (Photo: Reuters)
12 years after its last World Cup win, Barcelona is once again present in the Spain lineup.
Very present in the staff.
Germany will go up to the match tonight at Al Beit Stadium in the city of Khor, north of Doha, with a must win.
The loss to Japan was not planned.
It was supposed to be the most intriguing game of the group stage, but turned out to be Germany's final.
Four years ago in Russia she flew after the group stage.
Arrived in Putin's country as world champion from Brazil 2014, but was eliminated even before the round of 16.
The pressure on Hanzi Flick is crazy.
Even if there are many in Germany who are boycotting this World Cup because it was held in Qatar, Flick and his players do not want to fold the equipment before the knockout.
In Germany they are still expected to bring the trophy.
Tonight's game has become the biggest test for both teams, but the ones who will be watching it especially will be the Catalans in Barcelona, where they have been waiting for more than seven years to be the best in Europe and this season it won't happen either.
Spain's big game tonight with a significant presence of Federico, Gabi and their friends from the Ramblas, can teach about the beginning of change even for those sitting in the Camp Nou stands.
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