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After more than 20 years of waiting,

Atlatico Madrid have won at Camp Now,

and it was the barter target Julian Alvarez who led the way.

So does this performance underline their determination to sign the Argentine?

Joining us for this one, we've got our Barcelona correspondent Paul Balus.

We've also got La Liga correspondent, Dermot Corrigan, as well.

So, Barcelona, 19 points clear of Athletico Madrid in La Liga, but beaten 2-0

at the camp now on Wednesday night. It was an exciting game to watch, if I'm honest,

poll, from a neutral point of view, but how damaging was that defeat for Barcelona?

I think it is very damaging. Realistically, Barsar are really in a bad position now to go through the competition, which was the

ultimate goal that this squad has. Of course, we mentioned that they are in a good position in La Liga.

They are seven points ahead of Real Madrid with eight games left. They should be winning La Liga,

which is a huge success. But the ultimate goal that this squad has is the Champions League and losing

last night at home in a game where they were supposed to take an advantage to the

Metropolitano next week.

It's been as a huge blow.

At the same time, there's a lot of hope and joy to this Barster squad, to the generation

of players.

There's just lame chances in the fan base that this group of kids basically can

dream with turning it around, but being realistic, it was a huge blow, and it's going to be

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