• Chronicle: A humiliated Barcelona ends in Lisbon

“It was a horrible game, a terrible feeling. Shame, that's the word. You can't compete like that, you can't go around Europe like that. and it is not the second or the third time, "said Gerard Piqué in statements to Movistar Champions League. It even went further. Understand that changes are needed. Drastic. "It is very hard. You have to reflect, everyone. The club needs changes. I'm not just talking about the coach or the players, I don't want to point out anyone, but changes of all kinds are needed. If new blood is needed, I am the first one willing to leave, to leave it », stressed the Barça center-back.

The Champions League was Barça's last great hope. And Bayern Munich, with the German League and Cup titles already in the bag, snatched it from him in a way as cruel as it was forceful. With the elimination at the hands of the Germans, the Catalans closed the 2019-20 season in white. Something that had not happened since the 2007-08 campaign, the last of Frank Rijkaard at the helm of the Barcelona team. It was the prelude to the arrival of a Pep Guardiola who would be able to add six trophies in 2009. Among them, the first triplet in the club's history. Something that Bayern, who achieved such a milestone in the 2012-13 season, just before Santpedor's took over his bench, with Jupp Heynckes at the helm, seems to be in more than serious condition to repeat. The Manchester City of the former Barcelona coach, if his team beats Olympique de Lyon, it would be the next hurdle to overcome to achieve it.

Quique Setién, again pulled his most vulgar version. For now, he does not believe in Antoine Griezmann . The Frenchman, again, started the game on the bench. It was his first blur in his European history as a Barça player. Until that moment, he had been a starter in the eight Champions League games played by Barça, although his performance in attack was discreet. His entire production was reduced to two goals. One of them, against Borussia Dortmund at the Camp Nou, in a match that ended with a 3-1 victory for the Barcelona players in the group stage. The other, the one that meant the final level in San Paolo (1-1) in the first leg of the round of 16 against Napoli. Setién decided to give him minutes after the break, when everything was already too uphill. Desperate measures for desperate moments that failed to make up a disaster that became even more bloody with the last goals of Coutinho, the most expensive signing in the club's history and also a starting substitute at Bayern.

Griezmann, of course, is not having a very good time in his first season as a Barça player. And one of his compatriots, Samuel Umtiti, is living a particular hell that seems to have no end. The French center-back, one of the key figures of that France that was proclaimed world champion in Russia two years ago, has added a new setback to the knee injury that, for now, has him out with no date scheduled for a possible comeback . The defender, as reported by Barça itself through an official statement, is the second player in the first team, after Jean Clair Todibo , who has tested positive for COVID-19. At the moment, he is asymptomatic, he is in quarantine at his own home and the club has already traced all his possible contacts so that they undergo the corresponding PCR tests.

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