Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho insists his players were not humiliated by Barcelona last night.
Barca rattled five goals past Real at the Nou Camp.
Mourinho claimed his side were still a work in progress following the defeat, and admitted they had been well beaten.
"One team played at its maximum level and the other team played very badly," he said. "It's a defeat, not a humiliation."
And the Madrid coach was unhappy at his side's defending in the first half.
"We gifted them two goals that were almost ridiculous," he said.
Mourinho remained in the dugout as his side capitulated in the second period, but said there was nothing he could do to prevent the heavy defeat.
"I was watching the game. I tried to change things at the interval and we came out quite well, but then they scored again and there was nothing I could do - the game was lost," he said.
The defeat sees Madrid drop to second in the Primera Division after 13 rounds of matches, but with 25 games left, Mourinho is not panicking just yet.
"Last week we had a point more than Barcelona and today we have a point less," he said.
"And as I have always said, Barca is the finished article while Madrid is still a long way off that."
