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How brilliant Bayern Munich butchered hapless Barcelona with 8-2 crushing

Football - Champions League - Quarter Final - FC Barcelona v Bayern Munich - Estadio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal - August 14, 2020. Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski celebrates scoring their sixth goal. [Manu Fernandez/Pool via REUTERS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY]

German champions Bayern Munich utterly humiliated Barcelona with an extraordinary 8-2 demolition job on Friday that sent them through into the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Thomas Mueller scored twice for a rampant Bayern, who led 4-1 after 31 astonishing minutes, as Lionel Messi and his teammates were condemned to a thrashing that felt like the end of an era for the illustrious Catalan club.

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