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Barcelona hoped this evening (Sunday) to recover from the expulsion from the Europa League after the loss to Manchester United, and when they saw Real Madrid stumble yesterday in the derby against Atlético with 1:1, they knew that a victory over Almeria from the penultimate place in the table, would give them a gap of ten points over The face of the Blancos.
Contrary to the easy game that the Catalans expected, they saw the bottom team win 0:1, and the gap from the champion in second place remained at 7 points.
It was Almeria's first ever win over Barcelona in all competitions and only the Blaugrana's second of the season in the league.
The leader of the table raised during the game 47 times towards the host square - the most that an away team in La Liga has done since the 2005/06 season.
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Eric Garcia, who started the defense in five of the eight goals the Catalans conceded this season, expressed great frustration over the shameful loss: "It's a horrible feeling. We know we had to win this game. We suffered two consecutive hard losses, but we will have to continue. In the second half we tried to pick up as much as possible to the box and find the attacking players, but they filled their box with defensive players and it was not possible to score."
Xavi defined the game as "Barcelona's worst of the season" and added angrily: "I'm very angry. It was too difficult, we made it too difficult. We weren't there, we weren't in the game properly. There are no excuses for how we looked today, We simply did not deserve to win and we must take responsibility for such a display. We want to apologize to the fans. It's a game that is difficult to understand, there are simply no excuses."
The Spanish coach worried about the mentality of his players: "We felt that something was fragile in the players today. This is also the reason why there were so many players who got minutes today, we rotated. They were tired and it was obvious."
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