Luis Suarez has revealed he and his Barcelona team-mates struggled to recover from their shock defeat by Liverpool in the Champions League semi-final second-leg leg last season.
Having trailed 3-0 from the first leg, two goals each from Georginio Wijnaldum and Divock Origi completed a stunning fightback to help Liverpool reach the final and dump Barcelona out of the competition.
Suarez admitted he found it difficult to leave home in the wake of the upset, and his pain was felt by his team-mates.
Speaking to Fox Sports Radio in Argentina, Suarez said: ‘It was days, weeks, that we who loved to take the kids to school, football, activities, we suffered … I did not want to leave from home after losing.
‘It was very complicated. I really had a bad time, like most of my team-mates.
‘We had already learned the previous year that we could have such a 3-0 result in our favour, but football has that.
‘We knew how Anfield was going to be and how tight the stadium was, I told the teammates and everything.
‘It is not necessary to take away merits from Liverpool , which pushed the fans.
‘In five minutes they had two situations, at 15 minutes they already won and that enters you, it generates a nervousness.
‘Then you see that a teammate loses the ball, another loses two more balls, and that leads you to an awkward situation until in the second half it goes out as it came out.
‘The Champions League has that, if you go out 30 seconds relaxed, they pass you by. At the group, institutional level and as a human being this kind of defeat is suffered.’
