As a result of the partnership, the Spanish Super Cup has been developed into a very complete format in recent years, with four teams invited to Saudi Arabia to play two-by-two duels, and the winning team will decide the final Spanish Super Cup.
The first match between Barca and Real Madrid was a heavy battle in the super cup semi-finals, perhaps to show fairness or to attract attention, and the Spanish national derby was staged in advance of the semi-finals. The matchup is not as one-sided as the outside world speculates, because Real Madrid's excellent performance in the league compared to Barca's turmoil this season, the media are not optimistic that Barca can compete with the opponent, but they may have forgotten what Real Madrid means against Barca, and what it represents!
Starting
Not surprisingly, Real Madrid must have come up with their strongest 4-3-3 squad, but due to Alaba's injury, Nacho, the "golden oil" in the backline, took his place as a left centre-back, and he was still partnered by the thunderous starter Militao. And the midfield position ceremony three midfielders in full play, Kroos, Casemiro, Modric lined up, to the barca card deck, the forward line in La Liga to kill the four Vinicius plus Benzema, Asensio combination can be said to be quite threatening.
And Barca they are also the main force, Dembele + the recent good performance of Luc De Jong plus the emergence of new signing Ferran Torres give them the courage to fight with Real Madrid, and the midfield although Pedri is still unable to start, but the combination of De Jong and Busquets is not so bad, and the last piece of the puzzle Garvey is fully compensated for the vitality of the Barca midfield. Alves at the backcourt is undoubtedly the most eye-catching presence, after many years has been a human non-opponent Real Madrid but still has a combination of ceremonial midfielder and Benzema, I don't know how he and Pique face their opponents in the back line.
Race conditions
It can be said that Xavi is indeed prepared in this game, when the outside world thought that he would rout in this game, he gave the opponent a downside, the beginning of Barca played very active, completely did not show weakness, I have to say that the combination of Busquets and De Jong in the midfield control and other players with the rotation is very skilled, this is barca's genes.
Real Madrid still relied on the strength of individual players to take the lead in breaking the deadlock of the game, and Benzema's direct plug after breaking the ball found Vinicius who broke through to complete the near-angle goal! The score became 1-0.Barca also found an opportunity to equalize before half-time, facing Dembele's cross Andigliton carelessly unblocked and finally being kicked by Luc De Jong to equalize 1-1.
In the second half, Barca replaced Pedri, who returned from injury, and replaced the wingers Aboud and Fati to strengthen the attack, but Real Madrid still took the lead in responding, and in the 72nd minute, Benzemad's shot was directly saved by Ter Stegen, and then Real Madrid still formed an attack Carvajal to get the ball and then crossed Benzema to the sound of the call to exceed the score again!
However, at the end of the game, Barca still relied on tenacious willpower to drag the score into overtime, and in the 84th minute, Alba crossed from the sideline and then came on as a header from the second half, Andi successfully equalized 2-2! In this game, the two young players Vinicius and Fati also made goals, it seems that Mbappe and Haaland have not arrived before these two young players are the future Messi and C Ronaldo.
In the 97th minute, Rodrigo's cross was confused by Goalkeeper Ter Stegen after Vinicius' fake move to confuse goalkeeper Ter Stegen, who followed Valverde to complete the goalkeeper's suspense.
epilogue
After the game, Xavi said that his team's performance today has been very satisfactory to him, and they could have won the game, personally I think what he said is true, throughout the game Barça possession and even the number of shots on goal are more than Real Madrid, but they are really losing the game, football is always a pragmatic sport.
And Real Madrid are also advancing to the semi-finals of the Super Cup, and for Ancetillo, he has never won this honor, perhaps this year is the moment to break this record.