Barcelona on Wednesday were shocked by an emphatic display by the home side Celta Vigo after a wonderful start to the 2015-2016 premier division season
The Spanish giant fell behind in the 26th minute after ex-Barcelona player Nolito notched has fifth goal of the season with a superb curling.
At the 30th minute, Nolito made the assist of the second goal by nodding the ball to Lago Aspas after Gerard Pique made an erroneous mistake.
Celta were relentless and combined again for the third goal on 56 minutes by Lago Aspas
Neymar pulled one back at the 80th minutes before a subtitute John Guidetti clipped in three minutes later as unbeaten Celta Wrapped another triumph over their former boss Luis Enrique.
"I'm not happy to lose 4-1. I'll evaluate and analyse it but it's a test to show how difficult it can be," the Barca boss told reporters.
"All that remains is to congratulate Celta. They played a very complete game, in terms of effectiveness and their football.
"We suffered a lot in the individual battles - the first goal for Nolito went in the top corner but the second was our mistake.
"This result will be useful to tell us that it costs a lot to win - I prefer it when a team wins like Celta did, playing well. They're one of the more attractive [teams].
"We already knew if we committed mistakes we were going to be made to pay for them."
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