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Iconic images: Crazy Horse meets, then defeats, Cruyff

Throughout LFC's 125th anniversary year, Liverpoolfc.com will retrace the club's history through the striking images that plot a fascinating journey.

Seventh in the series is a photograph taken immediately before the Reds secured one of their finest European away victories.

Three days before Liverpool travelled to Barcelona for the first leg of their UEFA Cup semi-final in March 1976, Bob Paisley labelled the game 'one of the great occasions in our club’s history'.

“We’ll be going there to get a result. By that I mean a result which gives us the chance of winning the tie at Anfield in the second leg,” the manager wrote in a column for the Liverpool Echo.