{"id":403467,"date":"2026-01-11T23:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403467\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T23:07:07","slug":"barcelona-3-2-real-madrid-jan-11-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403467\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid (Jan 11, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-player-guid=\"3ab5000b-e423-c068-dd0a-a563ca5ddf90\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/231050\/raphinha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raphinha<\/a> scored twice in Saudi Arabia as <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"58f7c4a9-c991-4ed4-fe5c-1f833cba75b8\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=83\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> beat <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"66434654-a8ba-a04c-98e5-6bbd0dbbb780\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=86\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid<\/a> 3-2 on Sunday in the final of the Spanish Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha&#8217;s 73rd-minute winner came in a fortuitous manner after he slipped while shooting and the shot deflected off Madrid defender <a data-player-guid=\"af692d6d-f76a-3e38-b135-58ffb3529101\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/388338\/raul-asencio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ra\u00fal Asencio<\/a> to fool goalkeeper <a data-player-guid=\"13a8a402-8124-7609-c510-11cd93678276\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/134283\/thibaut-courtois\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thibaut Courtois<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The match featured a hectic end to the first half when three stoppage-time goals were scored before the break, two by Real Madrid and one by Barcelona, which also beat Madrid in the 2025 Spanish Super Cup final.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"61edbcca-c316-afde-575f-d9dd69176cc4\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/231388\/kylian-mbappe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/a>, who had missed the semifinals of the mini-Super Cup tournament because of a knee issue, entered the match in the 76th minute but couldn&#8217;t do enough to help Madrid equalize.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"df6ff39c-5f60-ac23-937e-c293506e78bf\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/125824\/robert-lewandowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Lewandowski<\/a> also scored for Barcelona. Madrid&#8217;s goals were scored by <a data-player-guid=\"f78d15e9-f696-dc66-52f0-b3f28e6b83e1\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/252107\/vinicius-junior\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"30d53081-885b-c42e-2fe6-050a4c9a8aa8\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/87297\/gonzalo-garcia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gonzalo Garc\u00eda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona midfielder <a data-player-guid=\"a78ad4b1-e5b8-8b30-6e71-9f7294c42bb6\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/219022\/frenkie-de-jong\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frenkie de Jong<\/a> was sent off in second-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raphinha scored twice in Saudi Arabia as Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-2 on Sunday in the final of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-403467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403467","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=403467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}