CHEI.........BREAKING: Ruthless Bayern Hammer Barcelona 8-2 To Reach Champions League Semi-Final

Bayern Munich humiliated Barcelona on Friday evening, emerging 8-2 winners in Lisbon to secure their place in the semi-finals of the Champions League.

An electric start to the game saw both teams score in the opening seven minutes, but it was soon one-way action as Bayern stormed to a 4-1 half-time lead before pushing on in the second half as a pathetic Barcelona collapsed.

While Barca’s goals came from Luis Suarez and Bayern’s David Alaba, the German club saw Thomas Muller and Philippe Coutinho strike twice each as team-mates Robert Lewandowski, Serge Gnabry, Joshua Kimmich and Ivan Perisic also netted.

Single-leg ties could be the future
Double-legged ties are havens for tactical dynamism, and it could be argued that a one-off game is harmful to the likes of Diego Simeone and his Atletico Madrid side – as their defeat by RB Leipzig suggested – but there has been something thrilling about these single-legged quarter-finals.
The structure of the tie has forced teams to strive for the win from the opening whistle, and we’ve seen some electric action as a result.
While there were dramatic finishes in Leipzig vs Atletico and Atalanta vs PSG, on Friday night the chaos came in the opening moments as both Bayern and Barca struck within the first seven minutes.
The excitement of these single-legged quarter-finals has surely been enough to warrant at least some consideration of keeping them around in the future
.Setien’s time is nearly up

In fact, it might already be up. Quique Setien’s inaction as Barca imploded in the first half did not only fail to instil confidence, it was cowardly.
The Barcelona manager seemed to have fewer ideas than his players on how to get a foothold in the fixture, and so he stood on the sideline largely in silence, letting things go from bad to worse.
Antoine Griezmann’s arrival in place of Sergi Roberto at half-time marked the first change of the game, but there should already have been numerous substitutions in the opening 45 minutes.

Setien has seemed out of his depth since his appointment in January, and imagining the Spaniard seeing out his contract – which runs until June 2022 – is a tougher task than Barca had after going 4-1 down in 31 minutes.
This is more of a general comment than one specific to this game, for while Lionel Messi was let down by his team-mates against Bayern, it’s not as if he himself was at his stupefying best.

But when one looks at Barcelona this season, and in fact at their state on and off the pitch in recent years, they have undoubtedly done their best ever player – this generation’s best player – a remarkable disservice.
Every year there are mutterings of the Argentine leaving the Catalan club, but they always seem to be fanciful, unfounded. Now, however, it might just be time for Messi to move on.
Yes, there is a romance in his fate being tied to Barcelona, and at 33 years old, is there much point in him relocating? Perhaps not, but seeing the forward in a fresh environment for a new challenge would be welcomed, and probably respected.