Led 2-0 to the 15th minute of play, FC Barcelona, still inverting, resisted a hat-trick from Kylian Mbappé to dominate his eternal Rival of Real Madrid (4-3) on Sunday and fly to a 28th title of Spanish champion.
Faced with Catalans who still offered an anthology show, five days after their semi-final lost in the Champions League against Inter, Mbappé responded, with a hat-trick for Real.
But the Frenchman was again far too alone to resist the Barcelona collective return, as in the first two finals lost in Spanish Supercoupe (5-2) and in the King’s Cup (3-2 AP).
Mbappé, top scorer in liga
His afternoon, on the lawn of the Montjuic Olympic stadium, could not have started better, with a clinical double, in fifteen minutes, first on penalty (4th) after taking advantage of a gift from the young Catalan defender Pau Cubarsi, 18 years old, then against (14th), found in depth by his Brazilian Compara Vinicius Junior.
These two new achievements of the attacker, followed by a third in the second period to reduce the gap (70th) make him the player who scored the most goals in his first season at Real (39), and the new “Pichichi” (top scorer in Liga with 27 achievements). They could also have changed the title race.
But in the end, they will only remain annecdotics. Because his team, still unbalanced and private of major injured players (Carvajal, Rüdiger, Eder Militao, Camavonga, Alaba, Mendy), did not have the advantage of two goals he had given him, and exploded in the face of the offensive power Blaugrana, by collecting four goals in less than thirty minutes (19th, 32nd, 45th).
With a fourth clasico won this season, the men of Hansi Flick, there, go straight to a 28th coronation of champion, synonymous with national hatching (Liga, King Cup, Supercoupe), with now seven lengths ahead of the Liga, three days from the end of the championship.
The Catalan players, who nevertheless emerged from a cruel elimination in overtime in Milan, recited their football to make an outdated Merengue defense folded, thanks to the Spanish defender Eric Garcia (19th) on Corner, a new jewel of Lamine Yamal (32nd), and a double of the Brazilian Raphinha (34th, 45th).
