I was probably as pleased as anyone, aside from Real Madrid fans, perhaps, to see Barcelona go out of the Champions League.

I’m very tired of their dainty little guys playing dainty little football, knocking it around 15 yards at a time, going sideways much of the time, just holding, holding, holding, able to run for 90 minutes because all of them are skeletal and weigh about 130 pounds, and then slipping it forward to Lionel Messi to score from inside the box.

We have seen that ad nauseum for about five years, over here in Champions League territory — which is just about all of Eurasia, now that I think of it. (Asia pays very little attention to its own Champions League.)

Bayern Munich crushed tiki-taka (as Barcelona’s pitty-pat style is called, in Europe) 4-0 in Munich, then to prove that wasn’t some one-night fluke, routed Barcelona 3-0 at the Camp Nou on Wednesday night.

That’s 7-0 aggregate. With Barcelona sitting on the “0”.

Gotta like that.

Pundits here are like those anywhere — gifted the clarity of hindsight and the possibilities of what could have been — and they seem to be setting forth four main arguments for Barcelona’s demise.

1. Barcelona is just worn out.  These guys have been playing big games and lots of them for half a decade, in many cases, and they are just tired. Mentally and physically. They played much of the season without their coach, Tito Vilanova, who was receiving treatment for cancer and, anyway, Tito is no Pep Guardiola, anyway. Long story short: Barcelona looked slow and almost disinterested, against Bayern.

2. The soccer world is catching up with tiki-taka football. If you study Barcelona’s team, they play a goalkeeper, one defender (Carles Puyol, when he is healthy) and nine midfielders. Both outside backs are actually mids whose job it is to get forward and widen the attack. And Barcelona hasn’t really had a big, target type forward since Zlatan Ibrahimovic left, two years ago. So, you just let the little guys knock it around on the edges of the penalty area, and you shut them down and bump them off the ball if they get close.

3. Messi is hurt. He played 90 minutes in the game in Munich, and did pretty much nothing. The words “invisible” and “anonymous” appeared in many of the match reports for that game. And as good as the rest of Barcelona’s guys might be, the guy who puts the ball in the goal is the little guy from Argentina. He did not play at all, in the game at Camp Nou.

4. Bayern Munich is just really, really good. They clinched the Bundesliga with eight weeks to play. They have lost once in the league this year, and that league includes the other Champions League finalist, Dortmund. It would seem Bayern has most of the skill of Barcelona but with a far more significant physical presence, which means headed goals and winning balls in the air — and also getting everyone involved on defense. They are so good, some suggest, that Messi could have been on his game and it probably would not have mattered.

I know that Bayern isn’t exactly a breakthrough team on the world stage. Those guys have been in nine Champions League finals (winning four). But I am ready to embrace anyone who is not the delicate little Catalans.