LISBON – A crushing defeat that was swallowed Barcelona against Bayern Munich in the 2019-2020 Champions League quarter-finals, a number of parties received great attention. One of them is the coach, Quique Setien.
Setien is the party most to blame for Barcelona’s defeat to Bayern. The urge to fire Setien also emerged after Barcelona was massacred 2-8 by Bayern at the Da Luz Stadium, on Saturday (5/8/2020) in the morning WIB.
Because, this result not only eliminated Barcelona from the Champions League, but also became the biggest defeat ever experienced by the Blaugrana – the nickname Barcelona – since the last time in 1946. In that year, Barcelona, to be exact, lost 0-8 to Sevilla in the last 16 of the Copa del. Rey.
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However, Setien is in fact not considered the only party responsible for the minor results. There is one more party who is also considered responsible for Barcelona’s elimination from the 2019-2020 Champions League.
As proclaimed by Di Marzio, Saturday (15/8/2020), he is the Barcelona Sports Director, Eric Abidal. He is considered to have made several mistakes in deciding the transfer of players.
During his tenure as Barcelona’s Sports Director since 2018, Abidal has given several players at high prices, such as Phillipe Coutinho to Antoine Griezmann. However, these players failed to shine and put on the desired performance.
