Football match
The 2019–20 UEFA Champions League quarter-final couple between Barcelona and Bayern Munich was played on 14 August 2020 at the Estádio district attorney Luz in Lisbon, Portugal. Bayern, who by and by went on to become champions, won the match 8–2, making it the first time Barcelona had conceded eight goals in a game since 1946, when they lost 8–0 to Sevilla in the 1946 Copa del Generalísimo.
due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the match was played behind closed doors. [ 4 ]
background [edit ]
In the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage, Bayern defeated Barca in both matches, 1–0 at home [ 5 ] and 2–1 away [ 6 ] en road to Bayern topping Group D while Barcelona finished third and failed to reach the knockout stage. [ 7 ] Bayern and Barca had met in four hard ties since 2008–09 UEFA Champions League, which yielded 26 goals prior to this game. Each time the eventual winner of the Bayern-Barca hard draw went on not only to win the UEFA Champions League, but besides complete the continental soprano, which besides occurred in 2009, 2013 and 2015. [ 8 ] Barcelona won 5–1 on aggregate in the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. Barca ‘s 4–0 succeed at Camp Nou in the foremost leg, with all goals scored in the first half, led Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer to remark “ What I saw in the beginning one-half is, without doubt, the worst football in Bayern ‘s history ”. Barca coach Pep Guardiola was sent off in the foremost branch for protesting a yellow menu given to Lionel Messi, and had to watch the second leg from the stands. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This defeat, a well as 0–1 home loss in a Bundesliga equal against Schalke 04, finally led to the sacking of Bayern coach Jürgen Klinsmann. [ 12 ] The semi-finals of the 2012–13 competition saw Arjen Robben and Thomas Müller inhale Bayern to a 7–0 aggregate victory, to become the biggest acquire of the semi-finals on aggregate, [ 13 ] including a 3–0 gain at the Camp Nou [ 14 ] [ 15 ] which was Barcelona ‘s last home defeat in european contest until a 3–0 loss on 8 December 2020 to Juventus. The semi-finals of the 2014–15 competition saw Lionel Messi and Neymar as the winder players in a 5–3 aggregate acquire over Bayern, a 3–0 gain at the Camp Nou and then a 3–2 kill at the Allianz Arena. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Bayern ‘s director at the time was Pep Guardiola, who had previously managed Barca from 2008 to 2012 .
road to the quarter-final meeting [edit ]
Both teams qualified for the knockout phase as winners of their respective groups. Both teams had besides changed their coaches during the temper, Bayern replaced Niko Kovač with Hansi Flick in November 2019, [ 18 ] while Barcelona replaced Ernesto Valverde with Quique Setién in January 2020. [ 19 ] Barcelona had faced Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan and Slavia Prague ; while Bayern, who faced Tottenham Hotspur, Olympiacos and Red Star Belgrade, won all six of their group matches, including an emphatic 7–2 gain at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, [ 20 ] scoring 24 goals and conceding just five. Barcelona faced Napoli in the round of golf of 16 and won 4–2 on sum ; while Bayern Munich beat Chelsea 7–1 on aggregate, with the second leg matches of both teams played behind close doors due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 4 ]
match [edit ]
summary [edit ]
The match was played on 14 August 2020 at the Estádio district attorney Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, as separate of a single-elimination tournament, following UEFA ‘s decisiveness to complete the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League and 2019–20 UEFA Europa League seasons, which had been halted since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at neutral venues. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] In the opening 10 minutes, Thomas Müller fired Bayern Munich ahead following a one-two with Robert Lewandowski. concisely after, David Alaba sliced a hybrid from Jordi Alba into his own net to level the scores, before Barcelona themselves missed two opportunities. Luis Suárez was denied by Manuel Neuer and Lionel Messi hit the mail with a curling cross-shot. The succeed minutes took the match off from Barcelona, as Ivan Perišić smashed in a debar blastoff in the 21st minute for Bayern, fed by a pass from Serge Gnabry, after a pass mistake from Sergi Roberto. Gnabry himself scored with a half volley straight shoot from a check through-ball by Leon Goretzka in the 27th minute, and Müller quickly added the one-fourth four minutes late from a cross by Joshua Kimmich. In the 57th minute, a neat turn and complete from the center of the box to the bottom-right corner by Suárez gave the spanish side a inkling of hope, but that proved premature, as Kimmich ‘s side-footed polish in the 63rd minute, connecting with a delivery from Alphonso Davies – who had beaten his marker, Nélson Semedo, at the edge of the box – made the scoreline 5–2 to the Germans. Bayern scored three goals in the close 10 minutes of the match as in-form striker Lewandowski, who had been silence for most of the second half, headed his 14th finish of the campaign from a close-range cross by Philippe Coutinho in the 82nd minute. then Coutinho, who was on loanword to Bayern from Barcelona, made the scoreline 8–2 in the final moments of the match : first by taking advantage of a communicate from Müller in the 85th minute with a right-footed shoot from the kernel of the box to the bottom-left corner, followed by a left-footed shot from very near range to the bottom-left corner from a headed pass by substitute Lucas Hernandez in the 89th minute. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ]
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aftermath [edit ]
Barcelona suffered their heaviest loss in 69 years ; this was the beginning fourth dimension they had conceded more than five goals in a UEFA Champions League plot, and their worst concession since the 8–0 kill to Sevilla in the attack of 16 of the 1946 Copa del Generalísimo. [ 25 ] Bayern Munich, on the early hand, continued their run of winning all UEFA Champions League matches they played in the season, and would go on to lift the title. [ 30 ] The eight goals Bayern scored was the most a side had scored in a european Cup hard match since Real Madrid defeated FC Swarovski Tirol 9–1 in the last 16 tie in 1990. Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski became the beginning player to score in eight or more straight UEFA Champions League matches since Cristiano Ronaldo in April 2018 ( eleven games ), while Bayern ‘s coach Hansi Flick became only the third director in Champions League history to win his inaugural six matches in charge, after Fabio Capello in 1992–93 and Luis Fernández in 1994–95. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] The match was besides compared to the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final couple between Brazil and Germany as Thomas Müller opened the score in the 7–1 rout of Brazil, which Jérôme Boateng and Manuel Neuer besides took part in. Flick had been the adjunct coach of Germany in that meet a well. [ 33 ] Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué stated that the clubhouse needed structural changes on all levels, [ 34 ] while club president Josep Maria Bartomeu described it as a “ disaster ”. [ 35 ] Three days after the game, Barcelona sacked director Quique Setién. [ 36 ] He was followed the following day by the club ‘s sporting film director Eric Abidal. [ 37 ] Setién was replaced on 19 August by Ronald Koeman, who had played for the club from 1989 to 1995 and was their assistant director under Louis van Gaal from 1998 to 2000. [ 38 ] partially owing to this heavy defeat, Barcelona captain Lionel Messi formally expressed his desire to leave the club, [ 39 ] in which he explained his decisiveness owed to the club ‘s fail to compete for the Champions League title after three previous debacles in the competition ( 0–3 against Juventus in 2016–17 quarter-finals, 0–3 against Roma in 2017–18 quarter-finals, and 0–4 against Liverpool in 2018–19 semi-finals ), by saying : “ I looked far afield and I want to compete at the highest charge, acquire titles, compete in the Champions League. You can win or lose in it, because it is very unmanageable, but you have to compete. At least compete for it and let us not fall apart in Rome, Liverpool and Lisbon. All that led me to think about that decisiveness that I wanted to carry out. ” [ 40 ] Although Messi ended up staying in the summer, the get the better of proved to be the final involvement that Ivan Rakitić, Nélson Semedo, Luis Suárez or Arturo Vidal would have with the club, as all four players departed Barcelona during the take after transfer window. [ 41 ] Bayern Munich went on to win their one-sixth style in the rival, overtaking Barcelona ‘s sum, following a 3–0 succeed over Lyon in the semi-finals and a 1–0 victory against Paris Saint-Germain in the final. This succeed would besides secure the clubhouse ‘s second continental treble, becoming only the second base european side – after Barcelona themselves – to achieve this feat on multiple occasions. [ 42 ]