Barcelona drew with Eibar on Tuesday night, with the Basque side's goal in the 1-1 draw coming from a Ronald Araujo mistake that Kike Garcia made the most of.
The centre-back spoke about his slip-up afterwards and took full responsibility.
"It's a shame that we didn't take the three points," he said in a post-match interview.
"It was a very quick piece of play and I didn't see that their striker was so close to me.
"We play a high line, so losing the ball where I did is dangerous. But, we do take that risk.
"You can't make such errors and I take responsibility."
Araujo, though, remains optimistic ahead of the rest of the 2020/21 campaign.
"We can't say that we won't be able to fight for the LaLiga title, although we'd have liked the three points today," he said.
"We need to be confident and pick ourselves back up.
"We're Barcelona and we'll fight to the end."
Josimart012
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I’ve always backed Koeman up since he arrived to the club. He is a club legend, he won us our first competitive UCL trophy, he have our respect. But I don’t really get his coach mentality. There’s literally 20 minutes left and the game is draw, we got no wings in the game, no proper striker. We got Grizzy, Messi and Coutinho as the ‘10’ role. How are we supposed to win game like this? Who in their right mind substitute Coutinho off and puts a defender in? We’ve seen Trincao and Pjanic play multiple times this season - they CANT contribute to ANYTHING! We got the likes of Puig and Konrad, literally WAITING to get their chance to prove the whole world wrong. Konrad de la Fuente, proper winger, fast, from La Masia. Where’s the DNA blood of Catalonia? This is a serious mess and since Koeman is the one in charge of the substitutes, he is the one to blame. If nothing new happens in the next 3-5 matches, I want him out. Respect for what he did in the past, but this is the time now and we ship of Barca is drowning.
Nueaopuz
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Head up king. Even Messi and Ronaldo makes mistakes.
Buylu01
378
You have spoken well lad👍🏼. That's how future leaders take responsibilities and fightback. Forca Barca. We will fight till our last breathe 💪🏼
fekbstyz
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Arujo is Mature. He acted like a MAN ❗️❗️, he took FULL RESPONSIBILITY for his error , even when its a Team sport 💯. I hope koeman takes him as an example, because Koeman never Blames him self , even when he’s wrong ..... jus saying .....
xavyboss
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I’ve always backed Koeman up since he arrived to the club. He is a club legend, he won us our first competitive UCL trophy, he have our respect. But I don’t really get his coach mentality. There’s literally 20 minutes left and the game is draw, we got no wings in the game, no proper striker. We got Grizzy, Messi and Coutinho as the ‘10’ role. How are we supposed to win game like this? Who in their right mind substitute Coutinho off and puts a defender in? We’ve seen Trincao and Pjanic play multiple times this season - they CANT contribute to ANYTHING! We got the likes of Puig and Konrad, literally WAITING to get their chance to prove the whole world wrong. Konrad de la Fuente, proper winger, fast, from La Masia. Where’s the DNA blood of Catalonia? This is a serious mess and since Koeman is the one in charge of the substitutes, he is the one to blame. If nothing new happens in the next 3-5 matches, I want him out. Respect for what he did in the past, but this is the time now and we ship of Barca is drowning.
Bull shit