Shakira screams, Lionel Messi tears and the dressing room story of Barcelona's Liverpool nightmare

It has been five years since one of Anfield's most glorious nights, when Liverpool overcame all the odds to beat Barcelona 4-0 to reach the Champions League final.

Having been 3-0 down from the first leg, Liverpool - without a number of key players - produced the definitive performance of the Jurgen Klopp era to book their place in the Madrid final, where they won the competition for a sixth time.

It was a result that sent shockwaves through Barcelona and in one of his most popular pieces for the ECHO, Dan Kay captured just what happened behind the scenes as Lionel Messi and co reacted to the game.

Dan passed away suddenly in May 2023 aged 45. Friends and family met in October to play the first annual Dan Kay Memorial Match, raising over £5,000 for charities close to Dan's heart. To find out more, click here.

It was a night nobody involved in will ever be able to forget.

For Liverpool, the Champions League semi final second leg against Barcelona was the tipping point when three-and-a-half years of promise under Jurgen Klopp crystallised into glorious reality.

24 hours earlier, that progress had seemed suddenly perched on a precipice. Vincent Kompany's thunderbolt for Manchester City against Leicester had felt like the final hammer blow to the Reds' fading hopes in a never-before-seen slugfest of a Premier League title race, meaning a likely 97 point tally would almost certainly not be enough to end that 29-year wait for a 19th league championship.

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And the previous week's scarcely-believable three