Barcelona overturned an early deficit to defeat Real Madrid 5-2 within the Spanish Super Cup ultimate on Sunday, securing a report fifteenth title.
The win got here after the Catalans dominated the primary half with 4 objectives and regardless of enjoying with 10 males after their goalkeeper was despatched off.
Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha and Alejandro Balde have been all on the right track earlier than half time, after French ahead Kylian Mbappe put Real in entrance within the fifth minute. Raphinha grabbed one other within the second half whereas Rodrygo scored for Real.
Barcelona put in a medical show to raise their first trophy in additional than a 12 months, having no silverware to indicate for final season.
“A goal for big clubs is always to win titles, that’s why we work hard. But now we have to show it in the next games,” Hansi Flick informed a press convention after successful his first trophy as Barca coach.
“Real made many mistakes, and we knew how to take advantage of them to control the match,” he added.
Barca prevented Real from successful their third title of the marketing campaign after they received the European Super Cup towards Atalanta and beat Mexico’s Pachuca to the Intercontinental Cup final month.
“In the first half we didn’t play football, we hit long balls and that wasn’t the idea,” Real coach Carlo Ancelotti mentioned.
“I told the players that they can lose games, but not in the way we played in the first half.”
Quick turnaround
Mbappe earned an early benefit for the Spanish champions, ending a solo run from across the midway line with a shot contained in the far submit.
But what seemed like a dream begin rapidly changed into a nightmare for Ancelotti’s males when Yamal leveled for Barca within the twenty second minute.
Striker Lewandowski gave them the lead 14 minutes later from a penalty awarded for Eduardo Camavinga’s foul on Gavi.
Raphinha elevated the benefit with a shocking header from a superb lengthy cross by Jules Kounde within the thirty ninth minute, and left again Balde added a fourth for Barca deep into stoppage time after 9 minutes have been added to the primary half.
Yamal launched Raphinha with a exact move following Real’s depressing nook kick earlier than the Brazil ahead left the ball to Balde who scored with a easy end.
Real began the second half with Rodrygo hitting the bar, sparking hopes of the hectic conflict taking one other flip.
But Raphinha quelled any sniff of a comeback when he made it 5-1 three minutes after the break, having slalomed previous the Real protection.
Barca have been left with 10 males when goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny was despatched off for fouling Mbappe within the 56th minute and Rodrygo beat substitute keeper Inaki Pena from the ensuing free kick.
But Real, who maintain a five-point benefit over Barca in La Liga after 19 video games, had no photographs on aim after the penalty till Pena denied Mbappe’s effort in stoppage time.
Barcelona additionally misplaced defender Inigo Martinez earlier than the half-hour mark by means of damage, with Ronald Araujo stepping in.
Barcelona and Real met within the competitors’s ultimate for the third consecutive time, with Ancelotti’s aspect prevailing final 12 months whereas Barca lifted the trophy in 2023.
Barcelona booked their spot within the ultimate by successful 2-0 towards present Spanish Cup holders Athletic Bilbao within the semi-finals earlier than Real beat final 12 months’s Copa del Rey finalists Mallorca 3-0.
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