An Upset at Jeddah - Barcelona thrashes Real Madrid 5 - 2 to lift Spanish Super Cup

It was a chilling encounter at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia where the finals of the Spanish super cup competition was held. The competition saw a three match fixture culminate into a frenzy for the Catalan giants on Sunday, 12th January 2025. 

FC Barcelona coming into this cup competition after a back to back home defeats against the duo of Leganes and Atletico Madrid in the La Liga have always seemed to be the underdog considering the size and caliber of players involved on the Madrid  side.

Madrid came into the competition with a winning streak advantage of six wins in seven games without a loss. There run of form was only stopped by FC Barcelona at the Super Cup finals. A finals that was hugely anticipated to deliver key events especially Madrid fans who consider their team invincibles. Now, someone has to remind and convince them that this is football and the unimaginable happens at a time when no one expects.

The game kicked off at 8pm at the King Abdullah Sports City with the Madrid team opening scoring with Mbappe's clean dribble and nice finish at only the 5th minute with Vinicius Jnr assisting the goal. However, the number 19 shirt wearing man, Lamine Yamal equalized with a subline finish off of Lewandowski's sweet assist at the 22nd minute.

Funny thing, was that the Barca team owned the game from the time of the equalizer onwards going on to score other four, 4, additional goals. Two from Raphina, one from Balde and one goal from Robert Lweandoski. At sixtieth minute, Rodrygo made it two for the Real Madrid team but it wasn't enough to cause a comeback or kick an upset despite Barcelona's team reduced to 10 man team following the shot stoppers red card at the fifty sixth minute.

Ancelotti, Madrid's coach has revealed he told the players at the break, “At half-time, I told the players let's see if we can START playing football”.

Hansi Flick was once asked after the game how he was able to manage Barca winning back to back games against Real Madrid with a nine goals score line. His reply was quite simple;

“How did we score 9 goals to Real Madrid in two games? Just FOLLOW THE PLAN”.

The Super Cup final between Real Madrid and Barcelona ended five, 5, goals to 2 in favour of Barcelona.