Messi had to take a car to the airport after missing the team bus due to a drugs test

Lionel Messi was reduced to tears by Barcelona’s Champions League capitulation against Liverpool and was inconsolable as he led the retreat from Anfield.

Messi had made part of his manifesto when becoming captain last summer to lead the club back to the summit of European football’s highest peak.

Yet his dreams were dashed as Liverpool ran amok last night, overturning a 3-0 first-leg deficit by winning 4-0 to leave Messi staring accusingly at his team-mates.

He finished the night urinating into a cup for Uefa’s drug testers after being randomly selected and had to be transferred to John Lennon International Airport in a car after the Barcelona team bus left without him.

The misery of Messi came as Luis Suárez apologised for Barcelona’s attitude in