Nine Barcelona players were awarded zero marks by furious Spanish publication AS after the club’s Champions League humiliation at the hands of Bayern Munich.
The press in Spain are united in their fury due to the manner of Barcelona’s defeat and the players subjected to the mauling in Lisbon have been heavily criticised from all angles.
Lionel Messi, the talisman typically responsible for rescuing the Catalan giants, endured a nightmare evening and was also rocked with the lowest rating of them all.
Barcelona’s shock capitulation means that there will be no LaLiga club in the semi-finals of the competition for the first time in 13 years.
And to little surprise, the Nou Camp stars ran ragged by their opponents were labelled as ‘pathetic’ and ’embarrassing’.
Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba were the only players given marks by AS.
The rest of their team-mates were deemed not worth of any score.
The same publication then witheringly claimed that Barcelona are stuck in a state of ‘painful ridicule’ after their exit.
Zero rating for Messi and his teammates except Suarez and Alba
Sport, another paper based in Catalonia, also pulled no punches.
In what was rightly labelled a ‘nightmare evening’, Quique Setien oversaw his final Barcelona game in charge before his looming dismissal.
The 61-year-old’s performance was simply labelled ‘sacked’, with his reign expected to be brought to an end after just six months this weekend.
Fellow publication Marca were similarly brutal in their player ratings.
Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Frenkie de Jong and Messi were the only players given ratings, with the performance of the other stars not deemed good enough to qualify for even the lowest grade.
Setien, in the same vein as Sport, was not handed a mark.
Barcelona’s squad were subjected to jeers from irate supporters as they returned to their hotel following the rout.
AS reported that some had screamed ‘scoundrels’ as their fallen heroes left the team coach.
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