Like a well-oiled machine, in a brutality we did not know, where there is no room for mistakes • Bayern Munich abused Barcelona with a historic 2: 8 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and toppled the card tower that has been swinging in La Rambla for years

• Leo Messi. In this tournament it is impossible to lie

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The last eight Champions League tournament in Lisbon, the one born at the last minute, out of necessity created by the Corona virus, has done a wonderful thing for football. He may have disrupted economic affairs and damaged the romantic connection between a fan and his team, but he took the sport itself - the game as a game - to the purest places.

The existence of these meetings in a neutral field, without an audience and without reciprocity, distilled the decisive games into the thickest essence of football. In Lisbon it is not possible to use the tremendous power of the fans, there is no home advantage, there is no room for tactics and strategies, there is no possibility to fix. The Portuguese capital has two empty plots and 90 minutes to show what everyone knows. As in the polygraph, this tournament does not allow teams to lie about reality. The better will win, the much better - will defeat.

And like PSG, Atalanta and RB Leipzig and Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich and Barcelona also internalized the conditions of this unique tournament, and when they got on the pitch at the Stadium of Light, they laid out all the cards on the table. Barça placed its swinging card tower, and Bayern stormed it.

It was reminiscent of Germany's 1-7 win over Brazil in the 2014 World Cup semi-finals. The goal difference is the same; Thomas Muller, Jerome Boateng and Manuel Neuer took part in both defeats and Enzy Flick was on the lines in both cases (assistant coach and Bayern architect). The essence was similar as well. One empire humiliates another empire, beats it mercilessly and causes discomfort to the neutral viewer. Something in our pennocho does not work out when you see someone strong folding like that, and in many moments of the game Barcelona was reminiscent of the miserable Brazil of the summer of 2014.

But despite the many similarities, there is one fundamental difference between the "minirasu" and the events of Friday night. While that 1: 7 was like thunder on a clear day, an unexpected event that was hard to predict, the 2: 8 was like thunder on a rainy winter day. After all, for several years now, Barcelona has been on the edge of a cliff, pushed by Atletico Madrid, Juventus, Roma and Liverpool - and somehow manages to survive. Sometimes thanks to the nails, most often thanks to Messi. She arrived at the meeting with Bayern without anything to hide behind, and was thrown into the wadi by Lewandowski, Müller & Co.

When Vidal belittled the Germans

As mentioned, this game has quite a bit of the Brazilian collapse in Blue Horizonte, but there is much more to it. To place him on a different and no less humiliating scale, one has to go back to what Arturo Vidal said on the eve of the game. "Bayern are playing against Barcelona," the Chilean stressed, "not against another team from the Bundesliga."

What Vidal was trying to say here is that despite all the early assessments and fitness with which both teams came into the game, there is no way the German champions will do to Barça what they do to rivals like Hamburg Worder Berman. She has won the first twice in the last decade 0: 8 and once 2: 9, and the second she has won in all of the last 22 meetings, including in the results 0: 7, 1: 6 and twice 0: 6.

Vidal, one who knows the gaps in German football closely, did not believe that Barcelona - bad as it may be - would enter one miserable evening in the shoes of Bayern victims in the Bundesliga. But as Thomas Mueller explained at the end: "Against Brazil we were good, but against Barcelona we were brutal." Usually this brutality is reserved for Hamburg, Berman and her friends, and on Tuesday Bayern managed to dwarf Barça until it became one of the group.

Once in 74 years

2: 8 may be a routine result for Bayern in the league, but in the Champions League it stands on its own. Flick's team followed in its footsteps for the first time scoring an eight in a knockout match at the factory, while for Barcelona it was the highest loss in all competitions since a 0-8 win over Sevilla in the 1946 Spanish Cup. Eighth game in a row and reaches 14 goals in the Champions League.

It was also an exceptional team game, one in which five Bayern players scored and cooked and the whole team kicked the Spanish goal 26 times. These are historic, unusual, inconceivable numbers, and they represent a victory that has more than Germany's 1: 7. Because then, six years ago, elements of a home tournament, crowd pressure, past traumas and more entered into the Brazilian equation. In the case of the 2: 8, it was a victory that was all about composure, planning and execution - just as the Bavarians do in league games. Bayern have humiliated Barcelona in net football, with no distractions and additions, and that is the most impressive it can be.