FC Barcelona-Real Madrid (Spanish Super Cup final) match report<\/p>\n
In a thrilling encounter at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, FC Barcelona overcame\u00a0Real Madrid 3-2 to claim the 2026 Spanish Super Cup. The match was a quintessential El Cl\u00e1sico, defined by a chaotic first half and a resilient defensive stand by the Catalans in the final minutes.<\/p>\n
Barcelona dictated the early tempo, controlling nearly 75% of possession, but the scoreboard remained dormant until the 36th minute when Raphinha broke the deadlock. The opening goal ignited a \u201cmanic\u201d period of stoppage-time action where three goals were scored in just five minutes as Vini bagged his first goal in 16 games to offer a sliver of hope for Madrid before\u00a0Robert Lewandowski immediately restored Barcelona’s lead as Gonzalo Garc\u00eda leveled it again at 2-2 just seconds before the halftime whistle.<\/p>\n
The second half saw both managers, Hansi Flick and Xabi Alonso, looking for an edge. The breakthrough came in the 73rd minute when Raphinha struck a low effort that took a fortunate deflection off Madrid defender Ra\u00fal Asencio, tricking Thibaut Courtois to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n
Desperate for an equalizer, Madrid brought on Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, who returned from a knee injury for the final 15 minutes. The tension peaked in stoppage time when Frenkie de Jong received a straight red card for a professional foul on Mbapp\u00e9, leaving Barcelona to defend with 10 men. Despite a late barrage of Madrid corners and a heroic double-save by goalkeeper Joan Garc\u00eda, Barcelona held firm to secure their record-extending 16th Super Cup title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona-Real Madrid (Spanish Super Cup final) match report In a thrilling encounter at the King Abdullah Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-403409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}