FC Barcelona Thrashes Real Madrid To Win Record 15th Spanish Super Cup

FC Barcelona mounted a historic comeback on Sunday, to thrash bitter rival Actual Madrid 5-2 in a Spanish Tremendous Cup remaining version of El Clasico held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Culers could not have been blamed for fearing the worst when Vinicius Jr. robbed Marc Casado of the ball in his personal half and despatched Kylian Mbappe off on a lightning tempo counter assault which concluded with the Frenchman fooling Alejandro Balde and placing the defending champion Los Blancos up inside 5 minutes.

On 22 minutes, nevertheless, Barca wonderkid Lamine Yamal went on a typical slalom run of his personal and slotted his completely executed shot previous Thibaut Courtois to equalize.

Virtually 1 / 4 of an hour later, Robert Lewandowski beat the Belgian from the penalty spot after Eduardo Camavinga hacked at Gavi and introduced the quantity six down within the field.

Raphinha’s head linked excellently with a Jules Kounde cross on 39 minutes to offer Barca a two-goal benefit, earlier than the Brazilian arrange Alejandro Balde to safe a 4-1 scoreline at half time.

Barca got here roaring out of the traps following the interval, with Raphinha scoring his second of the evening upon cleverly dribbling on the opposite aspect of a set of hapless white shirts to make it 5-1.

And whereas Rodrygo scored the free kick awarded when Wojciech Szczesny was proven a straight purple for fouling Mbappe outdoors the 18-yarder, the Blaugrana held on for a document fifteenth title within the competitors and received again the cup which Madrid relieved it of a yr in the past underneath Hansi Flick’s predecessor Xavi Hernandez.

By way of victory, the German who took over the reins in the summertime has now secured his first title within the Barca dugout and can hope that the comeback is an indication of issues to return for the remainder of the season.

Barca thrashed Madrid 0-4 in a La Liga version of the Clasico in late October, which put it six factors clear on the summit.

A string of unhealthy leads to November and December implies that they now path Carlo Ancelotti’s males by 5 factors and chief Atletico Madrid by six, with all of the groups involved having now performed 19 video games every.

Barca returns to league motion with an away journey to Getafe on January 18 because the newly-crowned Tremendous Cup winners.

Earlier than that, nevertheless, it’ll try to advance within the Copa del Rey by seeing off Actual Betis in Montjuic on Wednesday.