Barca win built off ‘exceptional’ young midfield

Barcelona humiliated Bayern Munich in their 4-1 Champions League win on Wednesday night, in large part thanks to three “exceptional” young midfielders.

While Raphinha will rightly get plaudits for his superb hat-trick, Barcelona’s win was built off Marc Casado, Pedri and Fermin Lopez’s tireless work in the middle.

All three are just 21 years old, while two of them are fortunate to even be in the side.

“If Barcelona had the money, they’d have Bernardo Silva, they would have kept Ilkay Gundogan and those two would have played,” Spanish football expert Guillem Balague told the BBC MOTD Champions League Highlights show.

“Those who are injured like Gavi, Andreas Christensen and Frenkie de Jong would have played ahead of two of these three. Only Pedri would be in the line-up.”

Instead, it is Casado and Lopez who are partnering Pedri and slowly becoming household names.

Having kept Bayern’s experienced trio of Thomas Muller, Joshua Kimmich and Joao Palhinha – who have 21 league titles between them – at bay, Barcelona may have stumbled on the perfect midfield three.

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