Barcelona finished the Champions League group stage in painful fashion and will play in the Europa League for the rest of the season thanks to a 3-0 loss to Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena. Bayern never needed to get out of third gear to utterly dismantle a Barça team that tried to compete but never came close to bothering the German champions, and Xavi’s troops are out of Europe’s top competition.
FIRST HALF
Barça made a solid start to the game, taking it to Bayern with high pressing and plenty of intensity, but the Bavarians quickly began to find spaces in behind Barça’s high line and started to create danger.