Is Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona the biggest meltdown in Football History?

It is up there, definitely in the top 3. PSG and Milan edge it for me, that Milan side was incredible and PSG were still comfortably through at the latter stages of the game.

Barca last year was terrible against that Roma side, losing this year after last year is worse, even if Liverpool at Anfield are very strong. The issue is really the repetition and the way they lost it with awful defending while still missing some good chances. Valverde and some of the players need replacing pronto
 
Meltdown or not, I am so freaking jealous it actually hurts deep in my guts. Wtf... Brings memory of that comeback against Bayern in 99. Wow. The way Liverpool players play football today was unbelievable. That team spirit is so important, fight for the club, for the city, for the manager, for yourself. It goes beyond quality of the individual players, it's sort of holly.

My Red Star beat them 2:0 in Belgrade with the same passion they annihilated Barcelona.

I think what's happening today in Manchester United is payback for all the success we had. Fans are just tourists who are incapable of making football atmosphere where opponent would just lose their legs.

Calling this a meltdown is bit hateful, but I get it. It hurts.
 
ExoduS said:
Meltdown or not, I am so freaking jealous it actually hurts deep in my guts. Wtf... Brings memory of that comeback against Bayern in 99. Wow. The way Liverpool players play football today was unbelievable. That team spirit is so important, fight for the club, for the city, for the manager, for yourself. It goes beyond quality of the individual players, it's sort of holly.

My Red Star beat them 2:0 in Belgrade with the same passion they annihilated Barcelona.

I think what's happening today in Manchester United is payback for all the success we had. Fans are just tourists who are incapable of making football atmosphere where opponent would just lose their legs.

Calling this a meltdown is bit hateful, but I get it. It hurts.
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Good post.
 
Barca turned up thinking the job was done. Liverpool turned up to do a job. Not entirely unlike the second half in Istanbul, and you could argue that it's possible for a team to be too far ahead and just switch off (as they did for the fourth goal tonight) BUT having spent about 40 years detesting Liverpool as a club and as a city, I have to take my hat off and say that was an extremely impressive performance tonight.
 
Casanova85 said:
In general, any decade, any competition.

Go.
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I's certainly one of them. Oh.. And thank you so much for your endless jinxes. Just quoting a fraction of them here. Much appreciated. 4-0 la!
Casanova85 said:
"We'll beat 4-0 at Anfield, la"
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Casanova85 said:
They won't: Liverpool's scoring 4 next tuesday and blah blah blah.
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Casanova85 said:
Winners score more goals. Losers complain about missed chances. Your objective next tuesday is to score at least 4 + clean sheet. Good luck.
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Casanova85 said:
What's the point of reaching a UCL final just to get embarrassed and a semi-final just to get thrashed 3-0, similar to Foreman vs Ali? Oh yes, 4-0 at Anfield, I know, I know...
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Casanova85 said:
4-0 la!

5-0 la!

5-1 la!
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Casanova85 said:
Man Utd were the underdogs that night. Liverpool is supposed to be this 97 Points Juggernaut ready to skin Barça alive at Anfield and prove that the 3-0 was unfair, blind luck, blah blah blah...

Still 50/50 la!!
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Halds said:
I's certainly one of them. Oh.. And thank you so much for your endless jinxes. Just quoting a fraction of them here. Much appreciated. 4-0 la!
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Yeah it happened. Felt a lil dizzy when I heard the final whistle, tbh. But mate, with Valverde's Barça anything's possible, though the trend actually started in 2017 with Luis Enrique. The squad of the 2015 Champions is past-it for real.
 
people were being mocking sarcastic with me after the first leg. 3:0 down was unlucky... liverpool dominated.
 
Wow, what a result. Never seen that happening in a million years. Barca must be kicking themselves.
 
Halds said:
I's certainly one of them. Oh.. And thank you so much for your endless jinxes. Just quoting a fraction of them here. Much appreciated. 4-0 la!
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I can never understand this, confidence is a good thing, cockyness not so much. I am loving the improvements we have made season after season under Klopp, but I would never take for granted success. Whoever we get in the final is going to be a tough match. And we could full well go another final, another loss. I look at it this way, this Ajax team have beaten Madrid and Juventus, and are a scary team to face as they can perform when they need to. Now supposing Tottenham go and win that game, they will prove they can stop the best and outscore them. Whoever we get, we are going to be worried about them.

We have had a great season. Whatever happens win a trophy or not, I am enjoying the fact we are competing, and that is something that I have missed for so long.
 
HisDudeness said:
people were being mocking sarcastic with me after the first leg. 3:0 down was unlucky... liverpool dominated.
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They were definitely unlucky to lose by 3 but also naive to press so high against a team with Messi in it and in some ways lucky to get away with conceding 3. Though obviously deserved to go through overall.

The problem with tonight is that Barcelona were so bad predictions are kind of irrelevant. They wasted 5 clear through chances including one where they had 4 players vs just the goalkeeper. They conceded one goal where they headed the opposition through on goal, another where one of their defenders simply couldn't be bothered to jump. Another where they literally as an entire team just couldn't be bothered to carry on paying attention after the ball went off for a corner. It's not really about respective quality when one side is repeatedly doing things you'd be appalled and shocked to see from an amateur or even school team.

In any other sport it'd be the biggest meltdown in history but in football this just seems to be the norm now. It would struggle to make the top three meltdowns of the last year. You're seeing stuff like this from the supposedly better sides nearly every week. I mean, this is a United forum, pick pretty much any United performance from the first half or last quarter of this season.
 
Kharhaz said:
I can never understand this, confidence is a good thing, cockyness not so much. I am loving the improvements we have made season after season under Klopp, but I would never take for granted success. Whoever we get in the final is going to be a tough match. And we could full well go another final, another loss. I look at it this way, this Ajax team have beaten Madrid and Juventus, and are a scary team to face as they can perform when they need to. Now supposing Tottenham go and win that game, they will prove they can stop the best and outscore them. Whoever we get, we are going to be worried about them.

We have had a great season. Whatever happens win a trophy or not, I am enjoying the fact we are competing, and that is something that I have missed for so long.
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I think Ajax are dangerous as you wont get the sort of shocking idiocy or lack of ability to put a basic shift in you saw tonight, and they also have quality. I want to see that as a final now as I think it'd be a good game, though would have you as fairly clear favourites.

If Spurs get through either you'll win, or we'll have another Chelsea situation where the supposed best team in Europe is so far off even being the best team in their own country that it just kind of cheats the point of the competition. Much as I'd hate to see Liverpool win it at least there'd be credibility about it.

Still think the best team we've played this season is PSG, who also looked very good in parts against you, but they blew it with schoolboy errors. That's two years in a row now I've watched Barcelona put in an absolute joke display that's been so bad it's made me angry even though I don't support them. Juventus looked good but didn't have the legs for Ajax at all. City bottled it. You and Ajax have been the two best sides in it when you factor all that in, for me. Both strong quality wise and with a backbone to go with it.

I'd be pretty pleased with this season if I were a Liverpool fan to be fair. Any trophy would be a bonus...but I think if you win something it's significant as it's kind of a statement and puts you up there as one of the top sides. If you don't you kind of just have to go again from scratch.
 
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PSG was still worse.

They conceded 3 goals in 7 odd minutes.

They looked even more scared and witless than Barcelona did.
 
2005 Champions League final will always be the biggest ever.
 
Remarkable from Liverpool.

even under Fergie, we didn't outplay a top team in Europe like that once.
 
Giggs86 said:
Roma comes to mind. They were a top team in 2007.
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That was great, but I'm thinking your Barcas, Madrids, Munichs. Can't remember us outplaying a team of that caliber like Liverpool here.
 
Yagami said:
That was great, but I'm thinking your Barcas, Madrids, Munichs. Can't remember us outplaying a team of that caliber like Liverpool here.
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In 2003 we beat Juve twice in the CL second group stage. We battered them properly at their ground 0-3 with Giggsy doing a nice impression of his 99 FA Cup semi goal. Juve went on to reach the final that year.

Keeps It tidy said:
Milan 2010
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Milan 2010 were worse than Roma 2007. That win was such a walk in the park that it felt more like it was Beckham's testimonial.
 
You're confusing meltdowns with comebacks. For meltdowns nothing trumps Brazil 1 Germany 7. That first half period, Brazil's players were nearly in tears, supporters were fighting among themselves, and the management was superglued to the bench. It seemed unreal and historical. Last night was just a great comeback against an overrated footballing power.
 
Needham said:
You're confusing meltdowns with comebacks. For meltdowns nothing trumps Brazil 1 Germany 7. That first half period, Brazil's players were nearly in tears, supporters were fighting among themselves, and the management was superglued to the bench. It seemed unreal and historical. Last night was just a great comeback against an overrated footballing power.
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Do you realize that at least TWO of Pool's goals were blatant-lazy individual mistakes? Barça collapsed, first individually, then as a unit, and Liverpool was there to exploit every fecking mistake.
Not a comeback, a meltdown.
 
Casanova85 said:
Do you realize that at least TWO of Pool's goals were blatant-lazy individual mistakes? Barça collapsed, first individually, then as a unit, and Liverpool was there to exploit every fecking mistake.
Not a comeback, a meltdown.
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Yeah they went to sleep on Origi for the corner but were waiting for the Liverpool players to arrive en masse in the box. Goalkeeper could have done better, yeah. But meltdown implies the continuous liquefying change from one state to another. Barcelona were not that great in the first leg, but they got the breaks. I'd argue there was no collapse in form.
 
I called it after our tie - any decent side can get at this Barca outfit. Truth be told the 3-0 at home was fortunate. Looking at some of that defending last night makes me never want to criticize Jones and company again!
 
Yes.
I believe this is worse than PSG and Milan due to the exacerbating factor of the injuries. Liverpool was without Salah and Firminho, 2 of their 3 best players, and they were against a Messi led Barsa.
 
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