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Barcelona boss Xavi Hernandez has heeded the advice from Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller in where the Catalan club needed to improve.

Barca’s three-goal defeat in Munich in their Champions League group stage game in December sealed their fate in the competition, as Benfica finished ahead of them in the group.

Blaugrana coach Xavi gave an angry post-match interview to that match in which he blasted his side’s performance and called their Europa League placing their new ‘reality’.

It was Barca’s second three-goal defeat against Bayern in the group, having been humiliated to them in an 8-2 defeat at the quarter final stage of the competition in 2020.

Bayern forward Muller gave an interview after the group stage in which he claimed that Barca were at the same technical and skill level as his side, but were missing one key ingredient.

While Xavi was in charge of that defeat in Munich, he had been appointed less than a month prior and only subsequently has he managed to implement a clear style of play.

The German international had highlighted the one element which his side were able to keep exploiting against Barca.

Muller said after the Champions League group stages games: "I think Barça can't cope with the intensity.

"Technically, they have it all, they are great players tactically and technically.

"But they can't cope with the intensity in top football."

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