FC Barcelona is like a permanent construction site and conceded ten goals in three Champions League home games.
The Camp Nou has become a nice destination. It invites the opponents in the Champions League for a walk. Barcelona have lost their last three home games, conceding ten goals and only scoring one. Less than a year ago there was a 1: 4 against Paris SG in the last game of the group stage, then in the spring of the last sixteen a 0: 3 against Juventus. And on Tuesday evening at the start of the new season of the premier class, it was 0: 3 against Bayern Munich.
Barça started their first Champions League season without Messi since 2004 and wanted revenge at their first encounter with Bayern Munich since the infamous 2-8 debacle 13 months ago. “But the Bavarian beasts soon took the lead in an alarmingly one-sided encounter,” wrote the British Sun. The headlines in Spain were even worse. “An image of inability,” wrote the As . “The Blaugrana ensemble is no longer able to perform,” was the result of El Pais . “Barcelona buries its greatness,” analyzed El Mundo .
The club is like a permanent construction site with no prospect of rapid completion. After an almost usual chaotic summer, large parts of the opinion-makers have not yet come to terms with Messi's departure and doubt the version that the debt of 1.35 billion euros and the league's upper salary limit do not allow continued employment. It is believed that Messi was simply disgusted.
Permanent construction site
Coach Ronald Koeman did not excel as a tactical revolutionary in his first year. But the former libero and hero of Barça's first Champions League win in 1992 is good for the club's economic situation with his talent for talent. Koeman relies so unabashedly on the youth that he turned 18-year-old Pedri into a top international player within one season. The Austrian Yusuf Demir could benefit from the 58-year-old Dutchman. He changed the 18-year-old Rapid loan as well as Gavi (17) and Balde (17).
Yesterday's pass-map shows that Barcelona players received the ball very far away from Bayern's goal. Practically zero danger.
– Barça Universal (@BarcaUniversal) September 15, 2021
The biggest problem child is the attack. Luis Suarez was given up a year ago, followed in the summer by Lionel Messi and Antoine Griezmann. As a newcomer, only Memphis Depay has been able to convince as a striker so far. Hopes now lie in the return of 18-year-old Ansu Fati, who has been injured since November.
