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VIDEO: Felipe Caicedo cautioned after elbowing Marc-Andre ter Stegen

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Tensions were, once again, extremely high as Espanyol and Barcelona took the pitch together for the third time in 11 days.

Having been the victim of racist abuse on Twitter following two Catalan derbies in which Espanyol was accused of violent conduct against Barcelona, Felipe Caicedo did his club's reputation no favours just before the interval, laying an elbow into Marc-Andre ter Stegen as the German 'keeper was clearing the ball.

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Caicedo was, somehow, only assigned a yellow card for the incident, and Ter Stegen exacted revenge moments later, producing a phenomenal save when the Ecuadorian forward was through on goal.

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