Is this the end for Barcelona?

Could this be the end of the great Barcelona team of Messi, Xavi andIniesta?

Madrid’s press certainly think it could be. “Fin de ciclo” screamed the headline on the front page of AS, one of Madrid’s two daily sports newspapers, on Wednesday morning after Barca’s 4-0 caning at the hands of Bayern Munich.

The two sides meet again tonight in the second leg of their Champions League semi-final. Surely the gods won’t grant another reprieve to Barça, of the kind it enjoyed against Milan in March in the tournament’s Round of 16, when Messi and company fired four goals past the Italians at the Camp Nou to progress 4-2 on aggregate.