Many remember the 2020 Champions League quarter-final between Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Due to the pandemic, the outcome was decided in a single match with no spectators. Barcelona’s attack featured Leo Messi and Luis Suarez, but the star forwards could not prevent a major 2-8 defeat.
Since that day, the Barcelona and Bayern Munich men’s teams have played each other five times. There have been some big three-goal victories for both sides, but none of those matches compared to the 8-2 result.
A similarly lopsided scoreline has now been repeated, this time in the women’s competition. On Tuesday, the Barcelona women’s team convincingly beat Bayern Munich 7-1 in the Champions League group stage. A result of this magnitude is a first in the history of matches between the two women’s clubs.