Bayern Munich beat host Barcelona 3-0 in the fifth round of the third match of the group stage of the European Champions League.
Sharjah 24 – Asaad Khalil:
Bayern Munich dedicated their contract to the Spanish host Barcelona, after beating him 3-0, in the fifth round of the matches of the third round of the group stage of the European Champions League, which saw a great victory for Inter of Italy 4-0 over his host, Viktoria Plzen, the Czech Republic.
Bayern, which qualified from the last round of the playoffs of the continental competition, have raised the score to 15 points, achieving full points so far after winning all five games in the group.
Bayern secured the end of his career in the group stage while leading the standings, regardless of the result of his last-round meeting with visiting Inter Milan, second on ten points, who qualified with him at the round of 16, which allows the German team to face one of the runners-up in the other seven groups in the next round, and then facilitate its mission to move forward with the championship, which it has crowned 6 times.
Barcelona, on the other hand, who confirmed their farewell to the competition from the group stage for the second consecutive edition before playing the game, stuck at 4 points, after obtaining a win and a draw on 3 defeats, for stay third, and move on to play in the European League.
Senegalese star Sadio Mane opened the scoring for Bayern in the 10th minute, before his Cameroonian teammate Eric Maxime Choupo-Moting added the second goal in the 31st minute, continuing to score for the fourth straight game in various competitions.
In the second half Benjamin Pavard scored Bayern Munich’s third goal in the fifth minute of added time.
With this result, Bayern continued to beat Barcelona in direct matches, having defeated the Spanish team for the sixth straight game, while the Catalan club’s last victory over its Bavarian counterpart was given on 6 May 2015, when it he beat him 3-0 at the Camp Nou, which hosted the match tonight, the first leg of this year’s semi-finals.
