In the early morning of January 13, Beijing time, the semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup began, Real Madrid and Barca met again, Barca is recovering, the overall strength and state is stronger than when playing Real Madrid in the first leg of La Liga this season, but unfortunately lost, regular game time and Real Madrid played a 2-2 draw, and finally lost to Real Madrid 2-3 through extra time, missing the final of this season's Spanish Super Cup.
In this game, Barca's 4 major rising stars became the focus, namely Fati, Pedri, Garvey, Ferran Torres, of which Ferran Torres made his debut, Fati and Pedri both returned from injury, Garvey continued to start for Barca, and the growth of the 4 will represent barca's future. With Pedri and Fati just returning, the two were on the bench, and Ferran Torres made his debut and joined garvey, Francie De Jong, Busquets, Luc De Jong, Dembele, Alba, Pique, Araujo, Alves and Ter Stegen to form a starting 11.
At the beginning of the game, Real Madrid frequently gained shots through counter-attacks to suppress Barca on the offensive. In the 25th minute of the game, Benzema completed a steal in midfield, and then directly assisted Vinicius to carry the ball into the box, and finally completed a small angle to break the goal, Real Madrid 1-0 lead.
In the 41st minute of the match, Barca found their form on the offensive end, Dembele crossed from the left side, Militan released, the ball bounced off the foot of Luc De Jong and scored into the goal, Barca tied the score 1-1.
In the 72nd minute of the game, Benzema shot inside the box, the goalkeeper struggled to save, Carvajal got the ball and crossed, Benzema got another chance to shoot, in front of the goal to sweep the goal, Real Madrid led 2-1.
In the 84th minute of the match, Alba crossed from the left and substitute Fati's header broke the goal, Barca equalized 2-2 and dragged the score into extra time, which was the third consecutive Spanish Super Cup game in the game, after 1 win and 1 loss.
This time in extra time, Barca once again fell short, in the 97th minute of the game, Real Madrid counterattacked in one go, Rodrigo inserted into the box from the right side, after getting the ball, he chose to cross, Valverde met the ball with a low shot, and Real Madrid led 3-2. For the rest of the game, Barca failed to rewrite the scoreline, regretting a 2-3 loss to Real Madrid.
According to statistics, Barça has seen a 16-year grand situation, with 20 shots on goal in the whole game, which is the most shots on goal against Real Madrid since 2006, and Barca ultimately lost in the attacking ability to grasp opportunities and lack of defensive tenacity. After the loss, Barca has a "three-line out" in this season's championship competition, falling out of the championship ranks in the Champions League, La Liga and the Spanish Super Cup in an all-round way, the Champions League is directly out of the group, the Spanish Super Cup is stopped in the semi-finals, and La Liga has fallen to the 6th place in the table, with a 17-point gap with Real Madrid at the top of the table.
Historical records show that Barca have suffered two consecutive humiliations against Real Madrid, first, starting from the 0-2 loss to Real Madrid in March 2020, until the 2-3 loss to Real Madrid in this game, Barca was killed by Real Madrid for five consecutive times, which was the first time barça suffered five consecutive defeats against Real Madrid since 1965; second, Barca's last five managers lost to Real Madrid in their national derby debuts, including Enrique (1-3 to Real Madrid), Valverde (1-3 to Real Madrid), Setien (0-2 to Real Madrid), Coman (1-3 to Real Madrid), Koman (1-3 to Real Madrid), Xavi (2-3 loss to Real Madrid).
In terms of players, Messi's successor Fati, wearing the no. 10 shirt, has the same efficiency as Messi did at Barca, scoring goals on his comeback, and has scored 3 consecutive games for Barca, setting 2 records, the first and 20 years ago to score 18 goals in 52 games for Barca, becoming the first person since Bojan in 2010; second, Fati scored a total of 2 goals against Real Madrid, which is the player who scored the most goals against Real Madrid in Barca's existing lineup.