On April 23rd you guys had seen the Match of Bayern Munich VS Barcelona right?
Yes! on that match, Barca defeated by Munich with Score 4-0
The most esteemed club side of the past decade, playing in their
sixth successive semi-final of this competition, suffered their heaviest
European defeat since going down by the same score to Dynamo Kyiv in
1997.
"They gave us a thrashing," Gerard Piqué, the Barcelona
centre-half, reflected after two goals from Thomas Müller, pictured
above, and one each from Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben had put Bayern in
control. "They were better and faster than us. There is no point talking
about the referee – there is no excuse."
Gomez's goal had come
from an offside position and Müller should have been penalised for a
foul on Jordi Alba before Robben made it 3-0. However, the Barcelona
coach, Jordi Roura, said the players had to accept the culpability.
"You
can imagine they're pretty depressed and down. Of course they are. We
had a match we were looking forward to and we lost. It hurts, it's
difficult but it happens in football.
"I wouldn't say the referee
influenced the game. We shouldn't try to hide behind that. Bayern were
just the better team, very good, very physical.
"We thought the
players on the pitch would be good enough for us but we didn't manage
it. We didn't get [Lionel] Messi into the game. He tried very hard and
it was a great effort of his to be here but we just couldn't do any
more."
Jupp Heynckes, the Bayern coach, talked later later of one
of the more satisfying results of his managerial career. "We played a
fantastic game," he said. "The decisive factor was the organisation of
the team, defending intelligently, every player was really happy to stay
back and at the same time we had a lot of creativity upfront. I am
really happy with the boys. Barcelona are a fantastic team so that's why
you can rate this victory even more."
Robben added: "We knew we
could give them a good game. Barça have dominated Europe over the last
five years and we beat them in such a terrific way. We can be proud,
everybody played a perfect game, we fought for every metre and we didn't
give them any space to play."
Barcelona beat Milan 4-0 in the second leg of their la,st-16 tie
having lost 2-0 in the first leg at San Siro, and Roura said they would
not give up hope of an improbable comeback at Camp Nou next Wednesday.
"It
[the score] is a wonder, a sensation, however you want to describe it.
Four-nil is a huge result, and there is a lot of catching up to do. Of
course it will be very difficult to reach the final now. I don't think
that kind of result has ever happened in the history of the Champions
League but we will do our best. We will hope, do our best and see if it
works and if the referee will be in our favour."
