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For Barcelona, the only good news as they boarded the bus for the six-hour return trip was that foster family Real Madrid - unsettled by Robinho's "you're not my dad" tantrum at Bernd Schuster that morning - couldn't win either, going down 2-1 at Riazor where they've not won in 18 visits. For Numancia, it was a glimmer of hope, where once there was none. Poetic president Francisco Rubio Garcés insisted he'd built a squad made up of "hombres con hambre" - men with hunger (in the will-to-win sense, not the Maniche one).