A 14 August; that is to say, it does exactly a year, the FC Barcelona was unlucky protagonist of one of his greater shipwrecks in the recent history of the Catalan group. This day were masacrados by the Bayern Munich with a conclusive 2-8, in a corresponding commitment to the quarter-finals of the edition of the 2020 of the UEFA Champions League, instance that played to only party in the city of Lisbon (Portugal) after the long stop that suffered the competition because of the sanitary emergency caused by the pandemia of the COVID-19.
This episode detonated the exit of the Uruguayan forward Luis Suárez and the Chilean mediocampista Arturo Vidal; two of the nearest players in the staff of the picture culé of the Argentinian Leo Messi, quien weeks later would command a burofax to the previous president of the Barça Josep Maria Bartomeu requesting him his exit, which this did not accept. The refusal of the exmandamás of the Barcelona activated a novel that prolonged near of a month until 'The Flea' retractó of his decision and decided to continue until the summer of 2021.
This day, in Lisbon, the 1-4 of the rest already converted the pass of the Barça to semifinals in more than a miracle, and the photo of a Messi knocked down was of the more virales in the social networks. The hard defeat accumulated to the suffered in the past editions in front of Rome and Liverpool, two of the most dramatic eliminations by the advantage harvested by the FC Barcelona in the meetings of gone.
After the goal of Suárez, in the 57, the illusion reactivated for the directed then by Quique Setién. However, the humiliation hardly began: Kimmich in the 63' and Lewandowski in the 82' cleared to the Barcelona. And, in case the 2-6 was not sufficient, the Bayern marked two goals more until the 2-8 final and the author was Philippe Coutinho, player precisely yielded by the Barça to the germanos in this season in which it attained to conquer the Champions under this condition.
The words of Messi
"For all, by how gave the party, for losing, can lose, have lost a lot of times and it is necessary to accept it. But yes that it was a moment I last by how it lost , especially because we knew that it was a party complicated, we came dragging a difficult year. We could lose, but no of the way in that we did it", went the words of Messi in December of this year during an interview conceded to The Sixth.