Used to seeing Real Madrid or FC Barcelona establish themselves at the top of the Champions League and European football for so many years, the Spanish press still seems a little groggy this Saturday after the correction imposed by Bayern on Barça in the quarterfinals of Champions League (8-2) in Lisbon.
“Ashamed”, quite simply
Affected by the debacle of the Blaugrana club and outraged by the level displayed by Quique Setien’s team during the meeting, the Catalan media had a great time.
Photo of Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez in one, Marca is content with one word to express a feeling shared by many supporters: “Shameful”. Ditto for the local general daily Ara whose title “Vergonyos” has the same meaning.
The theme of shame and the incredible Catalan rout also appears on the front page of Mundo Deportivo where the shattering exit of Gerard Piqué also finds a good echo.
As if to mark the mourning of the great Barça, the Catalan newspaper frames its photo of the defender with a black background and headlines the whole with a peremptory “Shameful end of cycle”. After a most complicated season with the Blaugranas and the football lesson given by Bayern Munich, it’s hard to see anything else.
A “historic humiliation”
On the side of Sport also, the color black accompanies the stinging defeat of FC Barcelona during this Final 8 of the Champions League in Lisbon. The daily analyzes this rout with emotion.
To the “historic humiliation” of the result, is also added the poor performance of Catalan players and a “ridiculous Barça” before recalling the words of each other after the correction inflicted by the Bavarians.
The historical character of this underwear is also the angle approached by the pro-Real As newspaper which does not hesitate to point out Lionel Messi on point.
The Argentinian, taken aback and as stunned by the disaster of his team against the fury of Bayern Munich in the photo of one seems to be lost in his thoughts after this match and this score which will remain engraved in the memories of world football.
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