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Playing Ba4 in this position

Recently, I played a game and after running the computer analysis, it seems like playing 5. Ba4 was a mistake, being better Bxc6. enter image description here

However, I cannot find the reason why. By retreating the bishop, White does not lose a pawn after ...Nfxe4. So I cannot see why my move would be a mistake.

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