Ernesto Valverde’s team failed to deliver on Lionel Messi’s Champions League dream and the issues seem to run deep
At the end Leo Messi collapsed to the floor and for a time he just lay face down on the grass, until a teammate eventually came and lifted him to his feet. Exhausted, he was barely able to breathe. Barely able to believe it, either. When at last he walked, the noise deafening as he headed towards the touchline, he was still wondering how it could have slipped through their fingers like that.
This is not Anfield, this is the Camp Nou six days earlier.
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