The unmitigated floor-wipìng received by Barça at the hands of Bayern Munich (2-8) will be difficult to forget for the Catalan club. This is because, beyond serving as a catharsis, Friday night's Champions' League quarter final drubbing is one of the worst results in the history of FC Barcelona: no-one has scored 8 goals against the team in 73 years.
If we look at the statistics, Barça have played 4,400 official matches in their history. Only six times has the number "8" gone up on the rival's side of the scoreboard. The first time was against Athletic in the Spanish league of 1931 (12-1), the second against Real Madrid in 1935 (8-2), the third against Sevilla in 1940 (11-1), the fourth once again from Real Madrid in the 1943 Cup (11-1), the fifth also at the hands of Sevilla in the 1946 Cup (8-0) and, 73 years later, the sixth against Bayern Munich in the 2020 Champions' League (2-8).
Piqué: "Vergüenza es la palabra, nadie es imprescindible. Si tiene que venir sangre nueva y cambiar esta dinámica, soy el primero en irme y en dejarlo. Ahora sí hemos tocado fondo". #VolverEsGanar pic.twitter.com/BDxEGgtjFd
— Fútbol en Movistar+ (@MovistarFutbol) August 14, 2020
"Piqué: "Shame is the word, no one is indispensable. If new blood has to come and change this dynamic, I'll be the first to go and leave it. Now we really have hit rock bottom."— Fútbol en Movistar+
Gerard Piqué said it at the end of the match: this result shows the end of an era that has arrived at Can Barça, an end that people have known about for too long, with the previous two years' European defeats by Rome and Liverpool, already painful defeats which have now been certified in Lisbon as Barça has suffered its worst ever humiliation in European football.