{"id":240386,"date":"2026-01-12T02:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240386\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:34:06","slug":"barcelona-win-super-cup-in-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240386\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona win Super Cup in Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raphinha scored twice as Barcelona beat arch-rivals Real Madrid 3-2 in a pulsating Spanish Super Cup final in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p>The score was 2-2 at half-time after Raphinha&#8217;s opener was cancelled out by Vinicius Junior and Gonzalo Garcia grabbed a second Real equaliser after Robert Lewandowski restored Barca\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha put Barca ahead for a third time after 73 minutes and they held on despite the late sending off of Frenkie de Jong.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan missed the chance to extend their lead at the top of Serie A to five points as they were pegged back by two Scott McTominay goals for Napoli at San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>Inter twice led through a Federico Dimarco effort and controversial Hakan Calhanoglu penalty but McTominay\u2019s double secured a 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Second-placed AC Milan failed to capitalise and needed a late Christopher Nkunku equaliser to snatch a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened Fiorentina.<\/p>\n<p>A 79th-minute own goal gave Lazio a 1-0 win at struggling Verona while Parma won 2-1 at Lecce.<\/p>\n<p>Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich scored six second-half goals as they thrashed Wolfsburg 8-1.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Olise was on target twice while England captain Harry Kane also netted as Bayern moved 11 points clear at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s other match in the German top flight saw Borussia Monchengladbach hammer Augsburg 4-0.<\/p>\n<p>In LaLiga, European hopefuls Espanyol were held to a 1-1 draw at lowly Levante. Carlos Romero\u2019s 53rd-minute opener for the visitors was quickly cancelled out by Iker Losada.<\/p>\n<p>Rayo Vallecano held on after the late sending off of captain Oscar Valentin for a 2-1 win over Mallorca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raphinha scored twice as Barcelona beat arch-rivals Real Madrid 3-2 in a pulsating Spanish Super Cup final in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-240386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}