Some are really just excuses in my opinion, coming from a Barcelona fan. Just wanted to share this with you guys anyway, so enjoy!

1. The squad has not been well rotated

Energy levels are low as Barça has approached the season's final straight and rotations have not been effective.

1. Tito Vilanova does not have faith in his reserves

Only one substitution was made against Bayern - in the 83rd minute when the team was losing 4-0.

1. Poor reaction from the coaching staff

When things have gone badly the coaching team has not reacted effectively to resolve the situation.

1. Poor signings made and winter transfer window opportunity not used

Alex Song was signed, but he has struggled to make an impact.

1. No Plan B after Messi

Many believe the team is totally dependent on Messi.

1. No action taken to fix last season's weak areas

The board of directors and coaching staff decided to stick with the
same players. Guardiola identified problems that needed to be fixed -
Dani Alves was one of them.

1. Injuries and illnesses

There have been
long-term injuries - including those sustained by Javier Mascherano and
Carles Puyol. Adriano, Alexis Sánchez and Cesc Fàbregas have all spent
part of the campaign sidelined due to illness. Then there's Eric Abidal
and Vilanova.

1. Lack of fitness and effectiveness on the pitch

The team's weakness in defence in the league has been a bigger problem in Europe against stronger teams.

1. Change in the team's attitude

One of the team's identifying aspects was the suffocating pressure to close down the opposition. Now the team is more passive.

1. The future of Víctor Valdés

Víctor Valdés
publically announced that he will not be staying on at the club after

1. The announcement has unsettled the squad.

1. NO PLAN B

You guys need to seriously adapt to different playing styles instead of always using the tiki-taka tactic.

I agree with Vendetta. If you are a professional manager you would know that in every game there should be a special tactics and formation and a good understanding of your opponent's strength & weakness areas. 

Ven +1. That is 100% correct... we have a decent counter-attack but we really need to stretch our players abilities.

Barcelona had 64% of ball possesion, so it was tiki-taka all over. But they weren't scared, Bayern play great and fast football.

Stop making excuses...

^ Can you please read the first sentence I wrote? I didn't even write this, this is from Marca... I just wanted to share it..

Marca is a pro madrid site everything they say/write against/towards Barcelona is bs 

amator coach, worst goalkeeper of europe, inexperimented substitutes, terrible defense.

I dont belive there are many reasons for the lose. Bayern was just the better team. I think that if Barcelona did all this stuff listed on the reasons why they lost Bayern would have won anyways... 

@tiki that amateur coach is winning the La Liga title im nt sure why you even a Barcelona fan

roura could do the same as any coach... he is not world class and has shown his limits. against celtic and Madrid,we can see it clearly... i didn't see the diference when he left barcelona,and team didn't get well when he arrives... Barça needs a real coach.

I think this is a better analysis:

<http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11946/8684670/Backwards-Barca>

Two years ago at Wembley, an imperious Barcelona side beat Manchester United 3-1 to win the Champions League with a line-up that featured a front five of Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Pedro, David Villa and Lionel Messi. Two years on, the only change of personnel in that front five for their semi-final second leg demolition was the introduction of Cesc Fabregas for Messi. Now we like Fabregas, but even he would struggle to spin that as an upgrade.

The problem on Wednesday night was not simply that Fabregas is not as good as Messi but that there simply has not been enough evolution in this Barcelona side. Extraordinarily, all 11 of the players who started that 2011 final are still at the club and seven of them started on Wednesday night. Of the four incomers, how many of you thinks that Adriano, Alex Song, Marc Bartra or Fabregas is superior to Eric Abidal, Sergio Busquets, Javier Mascherano or Messi? This is a side that has barely changed in two years but those barest of changes have been for the worse.

It's often said that standing still is going backwards in football so there is little wonder that this Barca side has gone backwards. The greatest side many of us have ever seen is now two years older and the considerable money they have spent on Song, Fabregas and Alexis Sanchez in those two years has improved the squad while the starting XI has got worse, with Xavi the old man of a side that now has an average age over 27.

Is it simply complacency? An absolute belief in the 'We are Barca' mantra that has been repeated and almost believed over the past week even though logic told us their Champions League campaign had ended in Munich? Did they think they were immune from the footballing maxim that even a successful side needs to evolve? Manchester City have presumably learned that lesson with an underwhelming season but Barcelona may have needed bruising humiliation to learn theirs.

Meanwhile in Munich, Bayern have retained just six of the players who started the Champions League final in 2010 - shedding the likes of Hamit Altıntop, Ivica Olić and Martín Demichelis and replacing them with better players. An evolving, financially blessed team should be upgrading one or two first-team players every season. Bayern have done exactly that while Barca have stood steadfastly still, seemingly oblivious to other teams across Europe investing to get stronger.

The idea that their style of football has been eclipsed is a fatuous notion. That style would still be effective and would probably still beat a stronger, faster side like Bayern if they were equally as good as they were two years ago. Being Barca would still be the best option if the Barca of 2013 really was the Barca of 2013 and not just the Barca of 2011 after two years of complacency.

True... I guess..