The last classic of the season ended the same as the previous three; Barcelona succeeds in chaotic circumstances.
The hosts won 4-3 winners in a wild dog in a game on Sunday afternoon, violently crushing around Montjuic with a feeling of wild and almost vindictive unpredictability. Real Madrid led the 2-0 before sending four goals from the first half without response.
Kylian Mbappe completed his hat -trick in the second half and Madrid had the opportunity to win – if he did not win a laughter competition in the closing stages, although the state of Barcelona as winners – and the Liga Champions League – can hardly be called into question.
As the game was deployed
Carlo Ancelotti insisted that Real Madrid was “full of confidence” despite losing the three previous clasicos by a global score of 12-4. This self -insurance initially seemed to be justified by two goals from MBAPPE in the fourth opening hour.
The Madrid record needed less than five minutes to win and turn a penalty, making a loose touch of Pau Cubarsi before winning Wojciech Szczesny in a foot race and 12 meters. MBAPPE reached its second at the strong end of a devastating sequence. Jude Bellingham and the Junior of Vinicius made the ball in the middle of the length of the pitch and in the passage of the French with two passes in ten seconds.
The game, however, only warmed up.
The flow of a contest Madrid It had been dominant already beginning to swing the road to Barcelona, as Thibaut Courtois quickly reformulated a couple of long -range efforts. Eric Garcia quickly reduced the deficit with 19 minutes on the clock, being behind Federico Valverde and in front of Raul Asencio to node on a corner header from the corner.
Suddenly this confidence Ancelotti He had been defending evaporated before his eyes. Barcelona mocked the ball around the edge of the Madrid box before it was finally to Lamine Yamal, who did not even need a touch before doubling a devastating effort on the lower corner from an acute angle. The teenager imitated the famous celebration of “calm, calm” by Cristiano Ronaldo, but no sense of serenity could survive this feverish party.
Exactly 100 seconds later, Raphinha had Barcelona in front for the first time. Mbapppe He ran into Dani Ceballos in the middle of the pitch, giving Pedri possession that he did not waste the time he collided with the fast -paced Brazilian team companion.
Aurelien Tchouameni could have been sent, Raphinha went closely and Mbappe had a penalty for VAR before this first half breath ended. Raphinha still found time to add a second, and the fourth of Barcelona, which punched Lucas Vazquez in the 45th minute.
Ancelotti made two changes to the interval apparently in an effort to cause hemorrhage instead of causing any damage. Barcelona continued to throw white t -shirts, but it was the visitors who surprised the first time of the second half.
Vinicius Junior finally avoided stumbling down in the trap outside Barcelona, passing through a wonderful ball by Luka Modric, one of Ancelotti’s substitutes, before square for MBAPPE to complete his hat -trick in the 70th minute.
This epic of all time had almost a final chapter written by Madrid’s debutant, Victor Munoz, 21. He played for the goal in the 90th minute, the reserve striker won a high and wide shot with his first touch to senior football.
For most other players, in most clubs in most other seasons, the Kylian Mbappe debut campaign for Real Madrid would be to savor. The French with cut to Jet brought his account to 38 38 -year record goals On Sunday, in all competitions with a hat-trick against the most fierce rivals of his new club. Instead of a simple flat bully, MBAPPE has marked in three finals only this season, winning two, but there is the persistent sense that its arrival has worsened Madrid.
Increasing Paris Saint-Germain in his absence has only aggravated the idea that Mbappe is a luxury soloist inadequate to be sustained at the elite level. The young man, 26, does not push feverish intensity and has only three first -flying assists this season, the same number as the Barcelona striker coincided during the space of a Clasico.
The role of a backup striker for Robert Lewandowski is a thanks task. The hyperdicate professional: The equivalent of Novak Djokovic Tennis football, an obsessive fitness that sleeps on his left side to preserve the right leg muscles, rarely misses many games.
Pol’s relentless goals record causes few coaches to overlook even when half -fit, but Flick did not have any Lewandowski rating on Sunday’s bench.
After all, Torres has made the most of his fleeting cameos. Despite playing 2,300 minutes less, he scored three more goals than he praised Yamal this season. The old Manchester City advanced three Barcelona Objectives this weekend and stormed every moment of awakening from four in Madrid.
A dedicated professional who has openly discussed his struggles with the role of perennial substitute, justifies exactly why Xavi Hernandez described him as an individual who “embodies what is a strong mental footballer”.
If this is Ancelotti’s final classic as manager of Real Madrid, a rumor that has been reduced Accepted fact At that time, the Italian tactic did his best to affect the procedures.
Ancelotti made several specific adjustments to try to avoid a fourth straight Classico defeat, most of which involved his star student Federico Valverde. The Uruguayan tenacious mainly took several goal tips from Madrid, using its powerful strike to pump the ball as far as possible.
When he did not throw the Orbe Red in space, Valverde Man scored Barcelona, Dani Olmo. That tactic worked: the Spanish player launched within the opening minute and rarely affected the game later, and kept the ball outside the defensive third of Madrid a little neutralized in the Barcelona press.
However, Madrid seemed to pay his direct approach after a 2-0 advantage, instead of nervously inviting Barcelona to them with a tone of creation that involved two goals. “If I am heard,” Ancelotti Pre-Joc smiled, “it will work well.” If they had only stuck to their plan for more than the match.
While recriminations will arrive after the fourth Clasico defeat of the Madrid season, the first time they have suffered a series of results since the 1982/83 campaign, there will be no bad blood between Ancelotti and the club. “The honeymoon never ends with this club,” the Italian insisted. “It’s like relationships. At first, there is a lot of passion and when it decreases, affection and other things grow. The honeymoon will last until the last day of my life.”
Prior to his first appearance on the apparatus, Hansi Flick called on: “When you start playing football, you want to play a classic. And this is the right classic. In Germany we have some games that they call classicos, but it is not the same, it is not Real Madrid and Barcelona.”
If only Flick could manage the Classico every week. The German coach – who became the first head of Barcelona from Pep Guardiola to win his four opening outings in this historic facility – has already won two titles after beating Real Madrid this season and took an important step to claim a third party this weekend.
With a seven -point advantage with three remaining games, Barcelona could be mathematically crowned The league Champions if Madrid did not defeat Mallorca on Wednesday. Alternatively, on Thursday, a victory for Catalan rivals would also be a very satisfactory coronation environment.
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