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Embarrassed, a nightmare and the impossible dream: Front page reactions from Barcelona and beyond

The Catalunyan and Madrid press found some rare common ground while the Liverpool Echo held the front page, back page and presumably everything in between.

YOU WATCHED LIVERPOOL’S Greatest European Night At Anfield live on tele, soaked in all the aftermath of the “fucking mentality giants” and gobbled up all the post-match reaction you could click on.

Maybe you went to bed, or maybe you didn’t for fear you would wake to find it was all some cruel post-Bank Holiday dream. 

Fortunately, the front pages of the newspapers will have caught your eye and reassured you of the reality.

First, to Iberia where the Catalunyan press were just as forgiving as their counterparts in Madrid.

Barcelona-based Sport are calling last night’s collapse the biggest ridicule in history

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And they were caught as flat-footed as the nine Barca players in the box for Divock Origi’s second when they released a pre-recorded video about Barcelona’s progression to face either Ajax or Tottenham.

Embarrassment of Anfield, is how El Periodico viewed it.

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A quick run on Google Translate would suggest that Mundo Deportivo’s headline basically amounts to: ‘Scarlet for ya’.

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There were plenty of other four-letter words that came to mind last night, but you might notice ‘Roma’ appearing time and again above. La Vanguardia go biggest on the Blaugrana’s last humiliating second-leg collapse, saying they ‘relive the nightmare‘.

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Over in Madrid, you can imagine the editors gleefully shoving their planned front pages aside for a chance to daub more shame on Barca late last night. As go with ‘thunder of Anfield’…

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… while Marca found rare common ground with Sport by calling the match a ‘Historic Failure’.

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Enough schadenfreude? The Liverpool Echo is a joyous publication this morning with front and back pages to make you wonder if there’s anything else other than Champions League reaction between the two covers.

Oh wait, there’s poor Andre Gomes down there, caught up in the celebrations in the interest of balance.

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The Guardian can’t quite devote the entire paper to Liverpool’s heroics, but they take up a full quarter of the front page nonetheless.

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And the Sun managed to squeeze the match in on the front page between some hard chortling about the lack of sleep their princes will be getting and a saucy British take on a tale that was doing the rounds two weeks ago.

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    Mute Freddie Rincon
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    May 8th 2019, 11:34 AM

    Poor effort on the translation and you use the Sun in connection with a Liverpool story. Should have given this task to someone else.

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    May 8th 2019, 8:09 PM

    @Freddie Rincon: its not a bad interpretation of the translation at all Fred

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    May 8th 2019, 11:44 AM

    Could have chosen a better example! Don’t buy the sun. JFT96.

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    May 8th 2019, 2:04 PM

    Really the sun

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    May 8th 2019, 3:48 PM

    @: joke …. the 42 are a disgrace.

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    Mute Dan
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    May 8th 2019, 12:55 PM

    Great game. As a spurs supporter thought they would have a hard task but by christ they made the game last night one of the best I have seen…great work….let’s hope spurs get through tonight…

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    Mute Ian Kelleher
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    May 8th 2019, 2:30 PM

    Sean Farrell- The sun! Really!

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    May 8th 2019, 11:31 AM

    Ah yes… Klopp has just reunited every English club. It’s even better than England progressing to the World Cup knock out stages. But this time it actually may be coming home … to Anfield!

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    Mute Ciarán O Shaughnessy
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    May 8th 2019, 3:09 PM

    The sun??

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    May 8th 2019, 4:03 PM

    Last night was magical. Football has become so commercialized and lost a lot of it’s soul, but last night reminded us what it can be at it’s best. Am hearing reports that Phil Coutinho’s Barca career is in big trouble, penny for his thoughts?

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    Mute Limón Madrugada
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    May 8th 2019, 8:08 PM

    @Laura Walsh: it was already before the game

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    May 8th 2019, 11:47 PM

    @Limón Madrugada: agree lad.
    As is valverde.
    Why leave your Arthur and Malcom out??
    Baffled

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    May 8th 2019, 2:03 PM

    Dave o kop that clown thought he was helping to sell Balotelli to China a few years, proof that Twitter and followers ratios do get to peoples heads

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    May 8th 2019, 7:40 PM

    Great game by Liverpool!!!

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    May 8th 2019, 3:27 PM

    Can you please remove The S*n one, thanks

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