Barcelona vs Liverpool Barcelona vs Liverpool
Barcelona v Liverpool - UEFA Champions League Semi Final: First Leg Liverpool crashed to a heavy 3-0 defeat at the hands of FC Barcelona in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League semifinal clash at the Camp Nou on Wednesday. And manager Jurgen Klopp could only wonder at what might have been. While many Liverpool players went on record after the match to say that Lionel Messi was in a kind of mood when he just could not be stopped, there were certain areas where the Reds failed miserably. Here, we look at three reasons why Liverpool lost on Wednesday. 1) Shoddy performance by Virgil van Dijk Virgil van Dijk and Lionel Messi It goes without saying that a poor performance by Liverpool's Dutch centre-half Virgil van Dijk was one of the main reasons why the Reds lost to Barcelona. Van Dijk, who recently won the PFA Player of the Year award, was far from his best at the Camp Nou on Wednesday. The fact that he was off-colour meant that Barcelona's talisman Li...