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It has been five years since one of Anfield's most glorious nights, when Liverpool overcame all the odds to beat Barcelona 4-0 to reach the Champions League final.

Having been 3-0 down from the first leg, Liverpool - without a number of key players - produced the definitive performance of the Jurgen Klopp era to book their place in the Madrid final, where they won the competition for a sixth time.

It was a result that sent shockwaves through Barcelona and in one of his most popular pieces for the ECHO, Dan Kay captured just what happened behind the scenes as Lionel Messi and co reacted to the game.

Dan passed away suddenly in May 2023 aged 45.

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It was a night nobody involved in will ever be able to forget.

For Liverpool, the Champions League semi final second leg against Barcelona was the tipping point when three-and-a-half years of promise under Jurgen Klopp crystallised into glorious reality.

Vincent Kompany's thunderbolt for Manchester City against Leicester had felt like the final hammer blow to the Reds' fading hopes in a never-before-seen slugfest of a Premier League title race, meaning a likely 97 point tally would almost certainly not be enough to end that 29-year wait for a 19th league championship.

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And the previous week's scarcely-believable three goal defeat, despite outplaying Barcelona for long stages of the Camp Nou first leg, had surely meant a season of remarkable quality and consistency was now almost certain to end in more empty-handed heartbreak.

For the visitors from Catalonia, this was an opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of the previous season's surrender in Rome when they had lost a three-goal home first leg lead and crashed out in the quarter-finals.

Barcelona' whole season had been predicated on winning the Champions League back after rivals Real Madrid's three successive wins following their last triumph in 2015, captain Lionel Messi's speech to his players at the start of the season about how it must be their primary focus being widely reported and channelled through much of their campaign.

You have to be alert and learn from your mistakes, don't you?".

Lionel Messi appears on camera to expand: "It was very hard because we relaxed, we were overconfident and we thought we were already in the final and that match shows you what the Champions League is."

Coach Valverde is asked by Catalan radio if it is impossible for what happened in Rome to happen again against Liverpool at Anfield

"In the same way as we have won, we have to concede that our rival can beat us", he admits.

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Eventually Stegen speaks and says: "After a match like that, the first thing you want is to disappear.

"I felt terrible for the people, for the fans who travelled.

"We all the same goal to reach the Champions League final and simply I'd like to say thank you for the atmosphere and ask them for forgiveness for the result

Pique adds: "It was a bit of everything but most of all it was a mental issue

"As captain, making that speech at the start of the season saying that we would bring the Champions League home to the fans, I think more than anyone, he was really hurting and very sad."

Barcelona had clinched the La Liga title the weekend before the first leg of the semi final against Liverpool and, while their Champions League exit clearly cast a shadow over their campaign, they still have a shot at some form of redemption with the final of the Copa del Rey against Valencia still ahead.

We see 'Captains' Messi and Pique meeting the press ahead of the clash in Seville and they make it very clear how desperate they are to put the Liverpool defeat behind them and end the campaign on a high.

"We are the only ones responsible for that match", says Messi, "because we knew that the same thing as last year couldn't happen, but it did.

"I think the match we played was pitiful, the image we gave.


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