The Argentine made it off the substitutes bench at half-time at the Nuevo Estadio de Los Cármenes but couldn’t turn the tide as Ramon Azeez and an Alvaro Vadillo penalty saw Ernesto Valverde’s men slump to defeat.
Even wonderkid Ansu Fati couldn’t help the Catalans, who still had Antoine Griezmann and Luis Suarez up top.
And Uruguayan ace Suarez had admitted there could be a struggle ahead for the LaLiga giants now sit three point off Granada, who now top the table, in seventh place.
The striker said in quotes on AS: “It’s a worrying defeat, a defeat that hurts. And a defeat that we have to take a real good look at, because there are lots of things that we have to improve.
“There’s a long way to go yet, but these are the types of games that win you the title. We have to be tougher if we’re going to win the league. We have a tough year ahead of us.”
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