Thomas Mueller's deflected goal gave Bayern a deserved lead in the first half, as Robert Lewandowski struck twice after the break, to inflict another painful European defeat on Barca after that, as he beat the Catalans last August 8: 2.

The Dutch coach pointed to the team's injury problems, including the absence of striker Ousmane Dembele, Ansu Fatiho, Martin Braithwaite and Sergio Aguero and revealed, that Jordi Alba played despite, that he was sick the night before the match.

“You have to be realistic in life.” Our young players showed, that we have a future and we have many players, who come back from injuries. That's right, Koeman said at the press conference.

"We are aware of that, that we are missing a lot of players in attack, and therefore we have to wait a few weeks, to have more options and more speed. I don't want to make excuses, but everyone knows, what problems we had with the players, who were not available. “

Barca in progress 90 minutes could not score a single shot on goal and while Bayern was able to bring experienced internationals from the bench, such as Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman, Koeman pulled out three teenagers to answer.

“It is very difficult to play against the team, such as Bayern, when you don't have much forward speed.” We have to accept it and keep working. And we have to give credit to the team, against which we stood, he added.

“That's it, to hurt the team, such as Bayern, you have to do the highest and you have to admit it, when the other team is better.” But I'm getting a little tired of talking about the same thing, in a few weeks the team will be different, because we will have more players available and we will be in shape.

"Bayern are one of the favorites to win the Champions League and we ran into trouble early on. We were a bit unlucky for their first goal, but they did it in the second half, that they are now a better team than us. “