Barcelona's submission to Liverpool is "The Greatest Embarrassment In History" declared the city's local daily paper Sport on Wednesday.
Fresh in the memory, it tops last year's turnaround against Roma. Leading 4-1 after the first leg of the quarter-final, Barca lost 3-0 in the Serie A side and exited the tournament.
Sport - Greatest Embarrassment In History
Unsurprisingly, Sport's player ratings were not kind to Barcelona. Only Arturo Vidal escaped with any kind of credit and he was rated a five. For the rest it was threes all the way apart from Ivan Rakitic and Philippe Coutinho who were both given zeros.
Mundo Deportvivo offered one-word summaries for each player. Again, Vidal was rated as the best.
Vidal: Recognisable
Ter Stegen: Beaten
Sergi Roberto: Strange
Pique: Inopportune
Lenglet: Overwhelmed
Alba: Catastrophic
Busquets: Overcome
Rakitic: Unknown
Messi: Powerless
Suarez: Dry
Coutinho: Invisible
Mundo Deportivo Liverpool player ratings
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Mundo Deportivo - Blush
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Marca's player rating gave zero stars out of three to seven of the Barcelona starting team. Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Arturo Vidal, Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets each received one star.
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Marca - Historic Failure
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El Pais - Monumental Fiasco
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