It's been a year since Anfield's catastrophic night

The one of 7 May 2019, does just a year, will be remembered like one of the most black nights in the history of the barcelonismo. This day, the FC Barcelona faced with illusion the turn of the semifinals of the Champions League against the Liverpool, in a party that contested in Anfield and for which the team culé had three goals of advantage of the party of gone.

The one who seemed that it went to be a glorious night, finish in historical disaster after a 4-0 that gave the pass to the English. Something that to the Barcelona did not come them again since, a year before, the Rome also had traced back other three goals against to the culés to snatch them the dream of the 'orejona'. After the goleada, the Barcelona changing room was entirely knock# down in a spirit that seems to not to have gone up since.

The night already began badly for the Barça since, to the 7 minutes of game, Divock Origi already had advanced to the Liverpool after a first defensive error of the Barcelona. In spite of this, in the first time the group of Ernesto Valverde was brave, did not seem too intimidated by the goal and had several clear occasions of Philippe Coutinho, Leo Messi or Jordi Alba to finish the work.

But the one who a lot forgives at the end finish it paying and, after a first part in which the game culé had not been bad, arrived the disaster. In hardly two minutes, the 54 and the 56, the Liverpool achieved to equalise the eliminatory with a doublet of Georginio Wijnaldum. Two finish that they left touched to the FC Barcelona, that was seeing run over by a rival that, now yes, was very upper by win and ideas.

Never it will forget , of that party, the minute 79, in which Trent Alexander-Arnold, avispado like anybody, took advantage of of the mental pie of the players of the FC Barcelona to assist to Origi in the goal that meant the 4-0 of the 'reds' to the culés in Anfield and, therefore, the elimination of the ones of Valverde in the semifinals of the League of Champions. Maybe the most sad elimination and humillante of the Barcelona history.

The principle of the end

Since, the Barça never has gone back to smile as before. It is true that the culés won a League, but all the other has gone to worse. The bad game with regard to previous seasons, the dismissal of Valverde, the clashes between the players and the managerial board, the institutional crisis, the financial crisis owing to the coronavirus​... From that night, neither the club neither the team have gone back to be the same.