LIVERPOOL, England -- It is 10 years to the day since Rafael Benitez's Liverpool side became the last English team to down Barcelona at their Camp Nou fortress.
Preparations were far from ideal, however. Benitez's team-bonding trip to the Algarve in Portugal before the match was overshadowed by a fracas involving Craig Bellamy, John Arne Riise and a golf club following a sanctioned night out.
As fate would have it, the two players involved would, ultimately, be the heroes as they scored the goals that put Liverpool on their way to a 2-1 victory over Barcelona in the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie.