Coach of Bayern Munich, Jupp Heynckes, has said he was not surprised by his team’s performance as they thrashed Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Heynckes, 67, is on the brink of taking Bayern to their third Champions League final in four years after a crushing victory in the Allianz Arena.
He said: “We’ve been playing extraordinary football all season.
“It was not a really big surprise to me that we scored four goals.
“We have played to a high level all season.”
Since it was announced that Pep Guardiola would manage Bayern next season, the club have won 19 out of 20 games in all competitions.
Arsenal are the only side not to lose, winning 2-0 at the Allianz Arena.
And it was Bayern who were utterly dominant in front of their own fans, cruising to a deserved win with two goals from Thomas Mueller, added to by Mario Gomez and Arjen Robben.
Barcelona may have had 63 per cent of possession but were subdued as Bayern restricted them to only four attempts on goal all night.
“You have got to analyse the other team and I did that,” said Heynckes. “How do they play? What is their style? Where do they move? You have got to have something to hold against that and I did that.
“I had a power-point presentation to show the different ways Barcelona work and move. My team was very tactically disciplined.”
Bayern, who last won the Champions League in 2001, are now huge favourites to book a place in next month’s final at Wembley.
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