JEDDAH (Reuters) - Barcelona captain Lionel Messi cursed his side's careless errors in their 3-2 defeat by Atletico Madrid on Thursday as they crashed out of the revamped Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
The Spanish champions, who had two goals ruled out in the second half after VAR reviews, dominated the match and were leading 2-1 with 10 minutes left thanks to goals from Messi and Antoine Griezmann.
"We need to try and continue playing as well as we did today for the rest of the year but make sure we don't make the childish errors we made today," Messi told reporters. The defeat continued a poor start to the new year by the league leaders, who were held to a 2-2 draw at struggling Espanyol last week which left them level on points with second-placed Real.
"We still have confidence in him and we will work hard so we can improve, but it's normal that there is discontent when there's a defeat and people feel the team is not playing as they would like," Messi added.
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