Goals with the aid of Thomas Muller and Leroy Sane gave Bayern a 2-0 half-time cushion in falling snow on the Allianz Arena, which become with out spectators because of excessive numbers of Covid-19 cases in Bavaria.
Teenager Jamal Musiala grabbed Bayern's 1/3 inside the second half to seal Barcelona's fate. Bayern, who additionally beat Barca three-zero at the Camp Nou whilst the edges met final September, had already qualified for the knock-out degrees as Group E winners. They now join Liverpool and Ajax with a really perfect six victories from six games inside the institution stage. However, for the primary time since the 2003/04 season, Barcelona will not be inside the draw for the final 16. Benfica's 2-0 win at home to Dynamo Kiev method Barcelona end 0.33 and drop to the Europa League.
It was almost 8 years to the day due to the fact that Bayern misplaced a domestic Champions League recreation in the institution section and the Bundesliga leaders had been in no mood to be beneficiant. Xavi Hernandez, forty one, who took price of suffering Barcelona four weeks ago, has now suffered returned-to-lower back defeats after his first loss as head train against Real Betis remaining weekend. Bayern had been no longer even at full electricity. With Joshua Kimmich quarantining after a tremendous Covid take a look at and Leon Goretzka injured, 18-yr-antique Musiala played out of function alongside Corentin Tolisso in protective midfield.
Barcelona made a vibrant start but diminished after dropping Jordi Alba to harm with half an hour long past, simply before Mueller headed Bayern into the lead. Robert Lewandowski discovered space on the left of the container and flicked a bypass to Muller whose looping header flew beyond the attain of Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen. It turned into a double blow to the Barca bench who had simply learnt Benfica had been 2-zero up against Dynamo. Things went from horrific to worse for the Spanish site visitors when Sane hit the net with a effective lengthy-variety shot that deceived Ter Stegen.
Sane should have put the end result past doubt when Bayern attacked just after the destroy. Instead of tapping the ball into the empty internet, he poked the ball into Ter Stegen's thankful palms. Alphonso Davies, who additionally ran Barcelona ragged in Bayern's historic eight-2 drubbing in the 2020 sector-finals, again brought about havoc down the left flank. The fleet-footed Canadian created Bayern's third when he pulled the ball returned for Musiala to tap home from near variety on sixty two minutes.
With 20 mins left and the contest successfully over, Bayern educate Julian Nagelsmann started setting out first-desire gamers. First to head were wingers Davies and Kingsley Coman. Then accompanied superstar striker Lewandowski and centre-back Niklas Sule, yet nevertheless Barcelona couldn't threaten Manuel Neuer within the Bayern aim.
