“I was really angry at the manager that he put me on the bench but I had to do something to help the team when I came on.'
Stand-in striker Divock Origi and substitute Georginio Wijnaldum both scored twice as Lionel Messi’s side threw away a 3-0 first leg lead and crashed out at a frenzied Anfield.
For Barcelona, the crushing defeat was the second consecutive year they had surrendered a commanding first-leg lead in this competition — and the scale of the capitulation leaves coach Ernesto Valverde facing the sack. “It’s 10 past 10, most of your children are probably in bed but these boys are f*****g talented giants. It’s unbelievable,” he told BT Sport.
“It shows what’s possible in football. It’s so nice.” Wijnaldum admitted he had been smarting at being forced to start on the bench and felt he had a point to prove.“I was really angry at the manager that he put me on the bench but I had to do something to help the team when I came on. But the 24-year-old Belgian has made a habit of scoring important goals in Liverpool’s challenge for a first Premier League title in 29 years and he notched his first ever in the Champions League on seven minutes, pouncing on the rebound after Marc-Andre ter Stegen had denied Jordan Henderson’s initial effort.
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker made an important save from Luis Suarez before Wijnaldum sent Anfield into raptures twice in a matter of minutes.
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