Thursday, March 28

Barcelona’s Champions League elimination comes at a big cost


Wednesday’s 3–0 defeat would have been bad enough for Barcelona if this had just been another defeat to Bayern Munich, another game lost in the same way all the others have been, by a side bossing possession and being picked off on the break by smarter opponents. But far worse could be the financial consequences of a second successive group-stage exit from the UEFA Champions League, something that had already been confirmed when Inter Milan beat Viktoria Plzen 4–0 earlier in the day. That meant Barcelona was locked into a third-place finish, dropping into the Europa League’s knockout phase.




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