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Barcelona are paying the price for WASTING millions on Dembele and Coutinho instead of strengthening the Pique, Lenglet, Busquets triangle - their defence couldn't stop Liverpool and were destroyed by Bayern, so how were they ever going to contain Mbappe?

Barcelona know the feeling of humiliation in the Champions League all too well by now.

Barca have been ravaged by Roma, Liverpool, Bayern and now PSG and what is more damning for the five times Champions League winners is for three of those horror shows it had been the same central defensive paring and the same holding midfielder.

The image of Gerard Pique holding Kylian Mbappe's shirt on Tuesday was like a frame from a cartoon sequence and summed up Barcelona's desperation.

Barcelona's failure to learn from past mistakes caught up with them against PSG on Tuesday
The image of Gerard Pique trying to stop Kylian Mbappe summed up Barcelona's desperation

Pique was playing his first game for almost three months and is now 34.