Bayern Munich Defeated Barcelona in Champions League Semifinal

Bayern Munich - Barcelona First Leg Semifinal Match Result - Champions League

Bayern Munich brutally crushed and beat Barcelona in first leg of Champions League this season on Tuesday at Allianz Arena. Thomas Mueller made 2 goals and Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben setup other 2 for Bayern. Barcelona defender Gerard Pique said that Bayern gave them a thrashing.

The much expected showdown between the European heavywights was a mismatch for both of 4-times winners of the competition. Bayern dominated in the midfield and this frustrated passing game of Barcelona before it could get close enough to create atleast some chances and this also punished the Catalans at the other end. Bayern used its size advantage to minimize the attack of Barcelona in the air and simply bulled Barcelona.

Barcelona got some hope from the return of its star Lionel Messi before the match but during the match Messi was not able to find an inch of space in Bayern's defense and he was clearly not fitted it. He was virtually invisible. Messi took only one and saw little with the ball. Lionel Messi was had a hamstring injury and missed 3 spanish league games.

Highlights Barcelona vs Bayern First Leg Semifinal Champions League Match

In this match, Barcelona was never seemed to have any chance. In the 25th minute, Muller made an opening goal by driving in an open header. It loosed his marker in that scramble. 4-minutes after halftime, Muller took a corner kick into goal mouth which was converted into goal by Mario Gomez who swept it past goalkeeper Victor Valdes. Opposite team was stunned and got only worse. Mueller registered his 19th goal of the season after Barcelona failed to clear a corner.

Mueller crushed defender Jordi Alba to free Arjen Robben to score from a tight angle in the 73rd minute and then he slid in to convert another kick into his 2nd goal in the 82nd minute.

After this Barcelona was seemed to be praying for the end of this match and they just wanted to get out of Bavaria and hopefully turn things around at its Camp Nou stadium next week. Without any doubt nothing can be worse than this, so Barca will have to be better. On Tuesday, its three forwards — Messi, Alexis Sánchez and Pedro Rodríguez — combined for a single off-target shot. The playmakers Xavi and Andrés Iniesta took none.

Player of this match's loser team admitted that they would be playing for pride now onwards. In the history of the competition, no team has progressed to the next round when they had lost the match of the first leg by 4 or more goals. Bayern which clinched the German League title weeks ago will face the Real Madrid Borussia Dortmund winner for the European crown at Wembley Stadium in London on May 25.

This team has dominated the Europe over the last 5-years and if you can beat them like this, you can be proud, according to Robben of Barcelona.

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