Roma – The desired connection is not there. Barcelona humiliates (5-2) Real Madrid who dreamed of reaching their old rivals at the top of the tournament’s roll of honour, and in Jeddah they raise the 15th Spanish Super Cup to the skies. As happened last October 26th in the league at the Bernabeu (0-4), the Blaugrana taught Ancelotti’s men another lesson by highlighting their great defensive limitations. The 4-1 defeat suffered in last year’s final was avenged with interest.
Mbappé scores and imitates Ronaldo, Yamal equalises
Yet it seemed to be a bad evening for the Catalans who, after being denied the advantage twice by Courtois following Yamal and Raphinha’s shots, went down (5′) pierced by a great diagonal shot Mbappé good at exploiting a verticalization from Vinicius Jr and intoxicating his opponents with feints before slotting the ball into the corner. The provocative ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’ celebration (with his arms folded) when he played with Los Blancos he charged Barcelona who, after coming close to the target again with Raphinha, equalized the score in the 22nd minute with a pearl of Yamal: The talented Esplugues de Llobregat took advantage of a Lewandowski serve to appear on the edge, skip two men and beat Courtois with a precise diagonal left foot into the corner.
Barcelona spread with Lewandowski, Raphinha and Baldé
The episode that changed the match came in the 35th minute: Camavinga he intervened out of time in the su area Gavi and caused a penalty that Lewandowski he coldly transformed. Real was unbalanced and already in the 39th minute they conceded the 1-3: a cross from the right midfield by Koundé found him unmarked in the area Raphinha who again beat Courtois with a header. The Blancos were in confusion and in the long injury time (10′) of the first half they also suffered a 1-4 on the counterattack: Raphinha cleared the marker at the limit Baldé which he scored with a left foot.
‘Manita’ signed by Raphinha then useless goal by Rodrygo
At the start of the second half Real attempted to get back into the game but the post denied Rodrygo the 2-4. Barcelona breathed a sigh of relief and waved the ball away in the 48th minute the ‘manita’: verticalization by Casado for Raphinha who jumped with a dribble to return Tchouameni and with a diagonal left foot passed Courtois for the fifth time. In the 55th minute, Real managed to close the gap: launched vertically, Mbappé jumped Szczesny, who came out of the area, who knocked him down. Referee Jesus Gil needed the VAR warning to bring out the red card and award the free kick from the edge of the box Rodrygo it transformed perfectly. Ancelotti tried everything by throwing Modric, Fran Garcia and Brahim Diaz into the fray but the blancos were at the end, with Bellingham and Mbappé, they came close to a hat trick. Too little to prevent Flick from winning his first trophy on the Blaugrana bench after the 7 wins with Bayern.
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