Barcelona wins exile in Europe

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Soccer can be sad.

Even uncomfortable or unpleasant.

But it is always more consistent than cruel.

Despite its chaotic appearance, nothing obeys a divine design.

Barcelona returns to the subsoil of Europe because in this sport it is not enough to market other people's assets and sign a handful of good footballers.

Whoever tries to buy immediate success, who tries to survive by running, not building, ends up consumed.

This is how Barça saw itself before that mirror that Bayern insists on showing it, who has best shown the world the institutional, economic and sporting poverty of the club.

There was no beginning because it was already the end.

When everything was supposed to start, it was already over.

The only hope that Barcelona had to avoid their second consecutive elimination in the Champions League group stage and return to the Europa League was for the humble Viktoria Plzen to take at least one point from Inter at San Siro.

The Camp Nou was still empty when the Czechs began to concede goals.

The match against Bayern thus became a strange and even more dangerous event.

Whether it was for image, for honor, or for shame, there was no other option for the Catalans than to put on a good face and at least hide that they were there to compete against the devil.

But nothing works when inferiority is so manifest.

It is not only that Bayern runs more, but that they do it better.

It is not only that Bayern is stronger, more resistant, orderly and efficient, but that it dominates Barcelona's fears like no other.

Since his arrival on the bench,

has only won one of the seven games he has managed in the Champions League, with impotence as the common thread of a well-known story.

The patches that work for the League (Athletic and Villarreal fell in a blast) do not work for the Champions League, which confirms both the growing decrepitude of the championship and the ineffectiveness of responses in Europe.

The penalty corrected to Lewandowski

The idea of ​​the fourth midfielder gave Barça the ball, but not control.

reserved

and with

as a strange entity,

moved away from the end to try to create inside.

It was impossible.

Everything was in the hands of

's convulsions , and that a ball arrived at

, unhinged by

and unable to beat his former teammates again.

Bayern took advantage of any defensive misery to punish viciously.

did

not have to be blamed for anything because the one who took his place was

.

The one who suffered this time like nobody else was

, who made his debut with Barça in this Champions League to show that the hole is still huge on the right side.

Bellerín came out very badly in the first two goals of the German team.

In the first,

won a race to space with extreme ease.

He was not even able to bother him before the Senegalese got past

.

And in the second, the former Arsenal and Betis winger corrupted the offside line that

had tried to shoot .

With Bellerin sunk,

the seas parted for

The Camp Nou was packed despite everything.

The fans cheered as much as they could, although nothing that happened on the pitch encouraged them to do so.

Xavi, embarrassed, waved his hands and asked for everything to end when he saw how the referee corrected himself after pointing out a penalty from De Ligt to Lewandowski.

, after reviewing the action, discovered how the battering ram had hit the central one first.

Gnabry

had a goal annulled for offside,

, Lewandowski discovered in his flesh the weight of wearing the Barça shirt at this time, and

, substitute in goal for the injured

, ended up with his clothes as clean as he put them on.

Such was the group nonsense that not even the young

will be able to remember with pride how much he showed his face.

Bayern frolicked in misery with a final

goal against an already deserted Camp Nou.

And Barça, given over to discouragement, rolled towards already known hells.

"It was as if the shame had outlived him."

closed

that

in which there was never a trace of hope.

Because life is real.

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