Le Real Madrid remporte la Supercoupe d’Espagne avec un triplé de Vinicius contre le FC Barcelone

Implacable, Real Madrid humiliated its great rival FC Barcelona on Sunday in Riyadh 4-1 to win the Spanish Supercup thanks to a hat-trick from Vinicius Junior in forty minutes, plunging the Barça into further doubt.

The Merengue thus take their revenge on last year’s final and will bring back a 13th Supercup to the club’s museum, already well-stocked. This first trophy of the year rewards a near-perfect first half of the season for Carlo Ancelotti’s men, now co-record holder of the number of titles won on the Real bench with Zinedine Zidane (11).

The Madridistas also bring their enemies back to the reality of the pitch: there is too much missing in this Barcelona to compete with the greats. Because if Xavi wanted a “click” before the match, he finally witnessed a shipwreck.

His men could indeed not have done worse start, Madrid perfectly exploiting the defensive slackness that seriously complicates the season of the Spanish champion in title (3rd in Liga seven points behind Real, eight from Girona).

The Barcelona defense, positioned very high in an asymmetric 3-4-3 scheme that is far too fragile, completely missed out twice, to find itself 2-0 behind as early as the 10th minute.

It was first the French defender Jules Koundé, in difficulty since his return from injury in November, who let Vinicius Junior go behind his back, perfectly launched by Bellingham before winning his one-on-one against Peña (7th, 1-0).

Repeated twice three minutes later, when Carvajal launched Rodrygo deeply, the other Brazilian arrow of the Madrid attack, altruistic to offer on a silver platter the ball of the double to Vinicius (10th, 2-0).

Ferran Torres sounded the Barcelona revolt with a half-volley on the bar, before Lunin made the first save on Lewandowski’s shot (12th).

The Ukrainian goalkeeper, selected in place of Kepa, preserved the two-goal advantage of the Merengue by imposing himself on foot in front of Torres (28th), before cracking a few moments later.

Left alone at the entrance of the area, Robert Lewandowski gave hope to his by a right-foot volley (33rd, 2-1), but he flew away after a new mistake from the blaugrana defense.

It is again Vinicius, caught by the throat by Araujo in the penalty area, who allowed Real to regain a two-goal advantage from the penalty spot (37th, 3-1), signing a resounding hat-trick in one half. time.

Barcelona’s ordeal continued in the second half despite the entries of Joao Félix, Fermin Lopez and Lamine Yamal, Jules Koundé pushing the ball into Rodrygo’s feet, who added a fourth goal from close range (64th, 4-1).

Guilty of the penalty for 3-1, Araujo was finally expelled for a new fault on Vinicius (71st). Peña and Koundé then prevented Brahim Diaz and Bellingham from sticking a little hand (79th), a sign of ultimate humiliation in Spain.