Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde admits his players are down after their Champions League shock at Liverpool.

He is not the only one to be hurting as he admitted that his players had felt the impact of defeat too.

"We're hurting, I won't deny it, we have a responsibility to ourselves and our fans," the coach admitted.

"We can lose a knock-out tie, the problem is how we lost it, we weren't good in the second half, it has been painful, there's no other option but to look forwards and we have to take the next step.

"It feels like our legs weigh more, but there's no other way to get over this than to get on with it.

"The bad weighs the most because it's the most recent, the defeat wasn't 1-0, it was 4-0 and it matters at clubs like this, this group has the ability to excite people."