Barcelona players were furious with Vinicius. Xavi: "A difficult moment to digest" - Voila! sport

Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 0:4 in the King's Cup, Benzema scored a hat trick (Sport 1)

Barcelona felt in the clouds after three wins in the Clasico this season and a gap of 12 points from Real Madrid in the league, with only one win separating them from the Copa del Rey final, but the landing was particularly painful.

Last night (Wednesday) the Blaugrana suffered their biggest defeat against the Blancos at the Camp Nou since 1963, with a humiliating 4:0 in the second leg of the cup semi-final, which was defined in the cover of "Mundo Deportivo" as a "hard farewell", and in the title of "Sport" as a "painful knockout" .

It was Barca's biggest loss to Real since the 5:0 in 1995, in front of more than 94,000 fans who came to the stadium.

"It's a difficult moment to digest, a difficult loss. It will be difficult for me to sleep tonight, I'm in pain," admitted a frustrated Xavi before trying to sum up the defeat.

"If I mention the injured who were absent, it will sound like an excuse. I was very happy that they would be available. I'm proud of the first half we did, in the second the quick 2:0 eliminated us and we paid dearly for mistakes. I said before the two games that Madrid is the favorite. They are the reigning European champions , a piece of a team. They didn't dominate the first half, but they took the lead first. That's how they won the Champions League last season."

The coach mentioned: "Let's not forget where we came from. When I arrived, we didn't compete for anything. A year later, we can win the championship and we won the Super Cup. I think it's a good progress. I don't think it's a mental thing. We're not mature enough, we have Lots of young players who need to learn how to compete better. Now we have to concentrate on the league, which is a more important enterprise than the cup."

A very hard defeat.

Xavi (Photo: GettyImages, Alex Caparros)

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The one who attracted most of the attention of the Barcelona players during the game, and also after it, was Vinicius.

The provocations of the Brazilian and his defiant celebrations in front of the Camp Nou crowd led to his confrontations with Gabi going down to the half-time break, with his personal guard Ronald Araujo later on, and also with Fran Torres.

Araujo, who pushed Vinicius in a moment of nerves, said after the loss: "Vinicius spent the whole game talking to the crowd and our players, so I got a little angry. He's a great player, but he needs to concentrate on football. If he did that, he would be a player even better".

Torres, for his part, became an object of ridicule on social networks after the Brazilian told him during one of their confrontations: "Shut up, you're so bad."

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Araujo tried to convey a comforting message: "It sucks to lose to them, this is our eternal rival and we wanted to win the cup. Our most important goal is to win the league after a long time. It's a hard loss, but I'm sure it won't affect us too much."

Sergi Roberto added: "In the first half we didn't deserve to lose. We were better than them. The first goal really affected our morale, and the second one killed us mentally. After that we couldn't play our football. Now we have to concentrate on winning the championship."

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