The postmortem from Gerard Pique was as brutal as the humiliation dished to Barcelona by Bayern Munich. “We have hit rock bottom,'' Pique said in a television interview on the field after Friday's loss dumped the five-time winners out of the Champions League in the quarterfinals. This was a night of utter misery in Lisbon in the pandemic-enforced single-game reformatting of a knockout stage that has never a seen a team lose so heavily in the Champions League era. But Barca hasn't won the Champions League since Luis Enrique swept five trophies in 2015. “Some decisions were already taken, and others will be taken as a result of this,`` Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu said.

Source: The Standard August 15, 2020 05:37 UTC