BARCELONA KNOCKED OUT OF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AGAIN
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By Adeola Abdullah
Barcelona have been knocked out of the Champions League in the group stage for the second season running after Inter Milan beat Viktoria Plzen 4-0 on Wednesday.
Barca, therefore, will play in the Europa League in the new year regardless of their results against Bayern Munich at Camp Nou later on Wednesday and in their final match in Plzen next week.
Xavi Hernandez’s side opened Group C with a 5-1 win against Plzen but defeats away to Bayern and Inter and a draw at home to the Serie A side left them on the brink of elimination.
Inter’s win took them on to 10 points from their five matches. Barca have four points but Inter have the better head-to-head record in the event the teams finish level on points.
It is the second season running that Barca, who have won the European Cup five times, most recently in 2015, have failed to make the last 16 of the Champions League following 17 successive years between 2004-05 and 2020-21 in which they reached the latter stages of the competition.
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