Barcelona once again demonstrates La Masia's excellence as Bayern Munich win

Due to its financial problems, FC Barcelona were unable to bring in many reinforcements in the last summer transfer window other than the signing of Dani Olmo, while also suffering the departure of several key players.

Against this background, Hansi Flick decided to rely on the club's youth system and has placed great emphasis on players who come from the youth ranks since the beginning of the season.

This phenomenon reached its peak last night in the game against Bayern Munich, as Mundo Deportivo reports that Barcelona started this game with six La Masia graduates in the starting eleven and introduced three more players in the latter stages of the game.

Inaki Peni, Pau Cubarsi, Alejandro Balde, Marc Casado, Lamine Yamal and Fermin Lopez were the six youth academy players who made up Barcelona's starting XI against Bayern. In the second half, when the result was already in his team's favor, Flick also brought Dani Olmo, Gavi and Ansu Fati onto the pitch.

It was the second time that the German tactician had fielded so many youth academy players in one game, the last time being against Sevilla.

Previously, Flick played in several games against five youth academy players, including against Valencia, Girona, Monaco, Getafe, Osasuna and Young Boys.

Despite this high level of commitment from the young players in the first team, at 25, Flick is still a long way from Tito Vilanova's record^Th November 2012, when the late coach fielded a full starting eleven consisting of La Masia players in a game against Levante.

But given the quality these young talents have shown under Flick, Barcelona fans can remain confident that their academy is still producing top-class talent at a very high rate, which has proven crucial given the club's absence in the was able to take the desired steps The market.