Spanish Newspaper Headlines & Reaction to Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich | Marca Sport Front Page L’Esportiu AS Mundo Deportivo

Here is a look at the frontpage headlines and reaction from some of the biggest Spanish newspapers following Barcelona’s 2-8 Champions League loss to Bayern Munich. The Bavarians dominated this game on xG as well, and Barca even had loanee Philippe Coutinho score two against them!

Sport newspaper headline Barca 2-8 Bayern (Humillacion Historica)

Historic Humiliation was the headline from the Barcelona based Sport paper.

Barca 2-8 Bayern Spanish Newspaper Headline 2020 Sport

Marca frontpage headline (Verguenza) for Barcelona vs Bayern Munich

“Shame” said Madrid based newspaper Marca following Barca’s 8-2 defeat.

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xG Barcelona Bayern Munich 1.02-5.36 Champions League Quarterfinal 2020- Expected Goals Map shows Barca struggle

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Barcelona were thrashed 8-2 by Bayern Munich in this Champions League Quarterfinal, a game many have dubbed as the club equivalent of Germany’s 7-1 win over Brazil in 2014.

Here is a look at the expected goals map for the game. By all accounts, the xG stat shows that this was a hammering for Barca. Bayern were deserving winners- they had a whopping 26 attempts (13) on target. By comparison, Barcelona had only 8 attempts (5 on target)

xG Barcelona 1.02-Bayern Munchen 5.36

xG Barcelona Bayern Munich Champions League 2020 2-8 Game

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Bayern Munich vs Barcelona 8-2 Goals 2020 Thomas Muller Gnabry Perisic Lewandowski Coutinho Suarez Match Stats

Bayern Munich vs Barcelona 2020 (Bayern-Barca 2020)

Final score and result: Bayern vs Barcelona 8-2 (Muller*2, Gnabry, Perisic, Kimmich, Lewandowski, Coutinho*2/Alaba OG, Suarez)

Lisbon- 14 August, 2020- Quarterfinal

A demolition job by Bayern, who score EIGHT against Barca to advance to the semi-finals. No Spanish team in the semi-finals, and no Ronaldo or Messi in the last four either. Also check out the Spanish newspaper reaction to this 8-2 loss.

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