Mourinho surprisingly sanguine after humbling

Mourinho, who usually finds any excuse going after defeat to the Catalans, could only suggest Leo Messi should have been sent off for a bad tackle, though Sergio Ramos also got away with a similar foul late on.

“When it was 1-0, we could easily have gone 2-0 up and maybe under normal circumstances we would do, but Cristiano has put it wide,” he said.

“We had no problems in midfield, we had problems in the last 10-15 minutes when the team was finding it hard to do it.

“Barcelona settled down and they had the space and time to control the game and to pass the ball.”