Barcelona trapped in a recurring nightmare that began at Anfield | Sid Lowe

Last season’s calamitous Champions League exit against Liverpool did not cause Barcelona’s crisis - it exposed structural failures which were ignored for too longPretty much the first thing Junior Firpo did as a Barça player was miss the ball. The second was to fall flat on his face. He had been on the pitch for 54 seconds and as he lay on the grass, the soundtrack provided by a bloke with a swanee whistle and a set of cymbals, he watched the men in red and white run beyond hi