This was not just a victory, it was an exorcism, the olés ringing round the Olympic stadium as Barcelona laid ghosts to rest high on the Montjuïc hill.

Bayern Munich, the team they could not beat, the ogres who had put eight past them in Lisbon, defeated them six times in a row, racking up an aggregate score of 22-4, and that had not even conceded the last four times they met, the team that were just too good, left here in pieces, expertly sliced apart. Four times Barcelona cut through them, Raphinha scoring a hat-trick and Robert Lewandowski getting another in a 4-1 win.