It was the greatest game in Anfield history, probably the greatest ever single Liverpool performance. And it all started on a miserable Catalan evening, where Barcelona triumphed 3-0, as Lionel Messi confirmed his status as footballing royalty.
Yet even in the Nou Camp dressing room immediately afterwards, things were stirring amongst a Liverpool side licking their wounds over what they perceived as an injustice, as skipper Jordan Henderson explained: “The lads were saying, ‘We were better than them…that wasn’t a 3-0, I think we’ve still got a chance.’ “Messi was unbelievable, yes, but we weren’t talking about him.
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