Bayern endorse Barça with the first defeat of the season

Two goals in ten minutes was the letter of introduction for a Bayern that overwhelmed a blurred Barcelona at the Allianz Arena.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
07 December 2022 Wednesday 16:34
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Bayern endorse Barça with the first defeat of the season

Two goals in ten minutes was the letter of introduction for a Bayern that overwhelmed a blurred Barcelona at the Allianz Arena. The blaugranas conceded their first defeat (3-1) of the season and will have to wait to seal their pass to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Bayern came out like a real gale and swept away a poor Barça who paid dearly for the constant inaccuracies in one of the worst starts to the game that the Barça team has remembered in a long time. Two goals in ten minutes were conceded by Jonatan Giráldez, unable to recognize himself at the Allianz Arena. Klara Bühl opened the scoring after only four minutes had been played, finishing off a Lohmann cross without much opposition and Lina Magull made the wound even worse six minutes later, taking advantage of one of Barça's countless losses in midfield.

And it is that the Catalan team was completely unrecognizable. Without defensive forcefulness, inaccurate in passing and unable to display his dangerous offensive game. Alexander Straus did his homework and replied to Natalia Arroyo's suffocating high pressure from Real that made things so difficult for the Catalans in the last league game. Barça, who had never been behind on the scoreboard before this season, chained their second game forced to come back.

The Allianz was a real party. 24,000 spectators were reached, a new attendance record for a club match in Germany, surpassing Wolfsburg-Barça from last season. The stands towards the wave and celebrated the triumph of theirs. Some stands in which a good handful of Barça fans were also seen who, taking advantage of the bridge, went to Munich to cheer on their team.

It was difficult for the Catalan team to enter the game, but it ended better than it started. A header from Bronze entering with everything from a corner, a distant shot from Mariona into the hands of the goalkeeper, a shot from Aitana over the crossbar... little by little she was leading the Germans into her area. The clearest, the shot by Crnogorcevic that Grohs took with his fists in an intervention of great merit. The rejection seemed to touch the hand of a Bayern defense, but VAR does not apply in the Women's Champions League until the quarterfinals, and the play could not be reviewed.

Barça started the second half with an unprecedented challenge: coming back from 2-0 down. He came out aggressive, looking for the goal from the opening whistle, and could have achieved it but for a huge Grohs, who frustrated the dangerous attempts of Aitana, Paralluelo and Crnogorcevic. The azulgranas had already created more danger in the first minutes of the second half than in the entire first, but in a new defensive error, it would be Bayern who would strike again thanks to a goal from Schüller, who made it 3-0 in the first occasion of the premises. Five minutes later, Geyse would manage to cut the gap by taking advantage of a resounding error by the German goalkeeper, but it would not be enough to avoid the first defeat of the season. Of course, next week they can close their pass to the quarterfinals by beating Benfica.