In the early morning of January 13, Beijing time, the semi-finals of the 2021 Spanish Super Cup began, a focus battle was played at the Fahd King Stadium, and the two giants of Barcelona and Real Madrid had a direct dialogue, which was also the second time that the two sides competed this season. The first match in the 10th round of La Liga, Real Madrid won 2:1 away, today the two sides did not reserve, basically sent the strongest team, Benzema, Vinicius, Dembele and so on are the first to start.
After the opening, the two sides began to attack, and in the 3rd minute, Real Madrid advanced to the left side, Benzema received the ball and cut two steps inside, and the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar. In the 12th minute, Modric sent an ultra-long-range scalpel-style straight plug from midfield, and Vinicius stepped in to get a half-knife opportunity, but his final push was not good, and the ball was confiscated by goalkeeper Ter Stegen. In the 25th minute, Busquets was careless in midfield, was stabbed by Benzema to break the ball, and then Benzema sent a subtle straight, Vinicius stepped in to get another one-handed opportunity, this time he did not waste another good opportunity, facing Ter Stegen calmly pushed the shot, Real Madrid opened the record 1:0.
Barca then stepped up their attack, in the 41st minute, Barça crossed from the right, the ball bounced to the left in the box, Dembele followed up with an inverted triangle cross, Militon was not decisive, the ball swept out just hit De Jong inserted in the back row and bounced into the net, Barca equalized 1-1. Yibian re-played Barca coach Xavi took the lead in substitution adjustments, Pedri, Ezalzuli, Fati and others have come on as substitutes, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti only began to make substitutions in the 68th minute, Rodrigo came off the bench.
Rodrigo had just played for a long time to send a wonderful pass, Benzema stepped into the box to take the ball and turned to flash out of the air and pushed into the far corner, BOOM's ball was blocked by the goalpost, and Barca escaped the disaster. 3 minutes later Real Madrid came again, Vinicius forced a breakthrough on the left side of the bottom sweep triangle back pass, Benzema followed up the stop to adjust a step of the shot was saved by Ter Stegen, after the point Carvajal grabbed the second drop point and then passed to the goal, Ter Stegen was another hard save, Benzema small penalty area line to grab the point and then make up for the shot, the ball went straight into the net, Real Madrid 2:1 again to take the lead.
Ancelotti again made key substitutions in the closing stages of the game, and Valverde came off the bench. In the 83rd minute, Barca's corner kick opportunity on the left side of the game, after making a tactical combination, Alba accurately crossed at a 45-degree angle, Fati grabbed the point in front of the goal and shook his head to attack the goal, the ball was answered into the net, and Barca equalized again 2:2. Four minutes later Barca had a chance to reverse the kill, but Dembele was hesitant to score a one-handed ball into the penalty area, and was finally destroyed by goalkeeper Courtois. The two sides drew 90 minutes and the match was dragged into extra time, which was also Barca's three consecutive extra-time matches in the Western Super Cup in the past two seasons, last season's semi-final Barça semi-final penalty shootout eliminated Real Sociedad, the final was lost in extra time, and finally lost 2:3 to Athletic Bilbao.
Today's extra time, the injured barca, the score is 2:3, the 98th minute, Real Madrid broke the ball at the back of the field to launch a rapid counterattack, Rodrigo followed up on the right side of the box to cross the middle of the road, Vinicius cleverly went all the way in front of the point, and Valverde, who arrived at the back of the post, stopped the ball and adjusted a step to push the shot, and Real Madrid took a 3:2 lead. After that, Barca still had a chance, but Dembele and Fati failed to seize it, and finally Real Madrid laughed 3:2 to eliminate Barca to advance to the final, which is also Real Madrid's domestic competition in the past year or so, winning Barca 5 consecutive games.