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Messi fuming over Barcelona's 'childish mistakes' in Supercopa loss

Lionel Messi was left to rue a series of "childish mistakes" in Jeddah as his Barcelona side crashed out of the Supercopa at the hands of Atletico Madrid.

In the first-ever playing of the new-look competition in Saudi Arabia, Barca went behind to a goal from Koke seconds after the game restarted after half time.

The Catalans rallied, with Messi and Antoine Griezmann - scoring his first goal against his former employers - turning the tables and Barca also seeing two goals disallowed via VAR.

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Alvaro Morata then restored parity to 2-2 from the penalty spot, and Atleti were unlucky not to receive another spot-kick in a frantic finale before Angel Correa scored the decisive goal four minutes from the end.