'Historic Humiliation!' - Spanish press react to Barcelona's 8-2 Champions League embarrassment against Bayern Munich

The Spanish press have unsurprisingly torn into Barcelona after they were knocked out of the Champions League in humiliating fashion by Bayern Munich last night.

The Catalan giants were hammered 8-2 in their one-off quarter-final tie in Lisbon, with Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho – on loan at Bayern from Barcelona – coming off the bench to score the final two goals.

After the final whistle, defender Gerard Pique said they had ‘hit rock bottom and called for ‘big changes’ at the club, while reports have already emerged suggesting manager Quique Setien will be sacked.

Spanish newspaper AS ran the headline ‘Humillacion Historica’ – historic humiliation – while Marca went with ‘Verguenza’ – shame.

Mundo Deportivo called the defeat the ‘end of an embarrassing cycle’, coming amid a season of turmoil at board level and marking the third season in a row in which Barca have been knocked out of the Champions League in embarrassing fashion, following the blown leads against Roma and Liverpool.

AS’s player ratings only bothered to attribute marks to Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba, with the rest of the Barcelona side deemed too bad to even get a mark.

French paper L’Equipe, renowned for its harsh ratings, gave Suarez a four, with no other Barca player getting higher than a three. Setien was graded one-out-of-ten.