Barcelona smashed out of the Champions League following a 3-0 loss at Bayern Munich on Wednesday, neglecting to make it past the gathering phase of the opposition interestingly since the 2000-01 season.
First-half goals from Thomas Mueller and Leroy Sane put the Germans, who won every one of the six matches to top Group E, immovably in the driving seat before Jamal Musiala tapped in the third past the hour.
Barcelona had progressed to at minimum the round of 16 each time they contended in the Champions League starting around 2001 however will proceed in the second level Europa League subsequent to winding up third in the gathering. Benfica qualified as gathering sprinters up with a success over base club Dynamo Kyiv.
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They will go into the draw for the Europa League end of the season games alongside Porto, Dortmund, Leipzig, Sheriff, Sevilla, Zenit, and the Europa League other participants.
Barca, who made not a solitary possibility in the subsequent half and scored only twice in six gathering games, have lost their last two matches in all rivalries following new mentor Xavi's first loss responsible for the side by Real Betis on Saturday.
Notwithstanding having gotten best position in the gathering, Bayern mentor Julian Nagelsmann handled his most grounded conceivable group, declining to rest top players after they beat Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
The German bosses had been battling protectively, keeping only one clean sheet in their last eight matches preceding Wednesday.
Jordi Alba tried Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer with a long-range exertion in the seventh moment and Ousmane Dembele terminated over the bar as the Spaniards at first squeezed high. Yet, that was generally that was to come from the Barca assault for the remainder of the game as the Germans step by step took control.
A shining Mueller run down the left got Barca snoozing yet his reduction came just past the point of no return for Robert Lewandowski who neglected to tap in from a meter.
The jobs were switched with Lewandowski chipping the ball into the container and Mueller heading in his 50th Champions League goal in the 34th moment, turning out to be just the eighth player in Champions League history to arrive at that imprint.
Bayern scored again before the break with a Sane rocket from 25 meters out. Barcelona, who required a success to progress, neglected to cut out a possibility in the second half before Musiala's 62nd moment tap-in fixed their exit.
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