Fiddlesticks. This is hugely disappointing. A loss in a competition were we couldn’t afford to lose any more points than we already had. Barça are now 7 points behind Real Madrid, who have a game in hand at the Bernabéu against Levante. You might as well say it’s a 10-point gap and call it a day.

Pep, with one eye on next week’s Champions League match, chose the following starting XI: VV, Alves, Piqué, Puyol, Abidal, Mascherano, Sergi Roberto, Thiago, Pedro, Alexis and Messi. Unusual? Definitely. Daring? I’d even go so far as to call it “risqué”. Crazy? Not necessarily.

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