2025 ends and it is time to count. The year passed, as always, between great sporting moments. Football was no exception to this. And even less in a year with so much activity, despite not having World Cups or European Nations Cup. 2025 was marked by the novel FIFA Club World Cupthe qualifying rounds 2026 World Cupthe Asian Cupthe African Cupand exciting and unpublished definitions in the Champions League and the Europa League. We present to you the best games we experienced in 2025: duels that football fans will remember for a long time.
5 – Barcelona 4-3 Real Madrid | matchday 35 LaLiga 2024-2025
He Barca by Flick confirmed the total sweep over its greatest rival in the four Clásicos of the 2024 season with a crazy match that could have ended 8-7 due to the number of scoring opportunities that both teams enjoyed. He Madrid started better and took the lead thanks to a penalty Mbappéwhich shortly after doubled the lead (0-2) in just 15 minutes of play; The culés reacted and devastated the meringues in half an hour. From 0-2 to 4-2. The whites asked for the time at half-time and came back reactivated at the start. Barcelona wasted a thousand opportunities, but so was the visit, which found relief until Mbappé scored his hat-trick in the 70th minute. Madrid could have tied in agony, with time already running out, but Victor Muñoz he threw the ball out in his one-on-one with Szczesny.
4 – Al Hilal 4-3 Manchester City | round of 16 of the 2025 Club World Cup
The biggest surprise of FIFA Club World Cup It arrived on June 30. Although Al Hilal presented itself, due to the power of its squad, as the main opposition to the European and Brazilian clubs in the tournament, no one expected a super-power like Guardiola’s ‘Citizens’ to realize it. The goal of Bernardo Silvaat 9′, predicted a different story for the light blues; Marcos Leonardo He came back in the second half, Malcolm brought about the Saudi comeback, but Haaland restored calm to the Mancunians. The madness came in extra time: Koulibaly overtook Al Hilal, Phil Foden he refused to die (3-3) and Marcos Leonardo struck the final blow eight minutes from the end of extra time. Who would have thought that the best game of the Club World Cup would have Al Hilal as the protagonist.
3 – Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid | final of the Copa del Rey 2024-2025
Perhaps the best played match, tactically and technically, of all of 2025. And one of the best Classics in history. He Madrid Prestige and the only trophy of the season that could be won at that point were at stake. He Barcelona He was still in search of the triplet and a new paternity over his nemesis. The culés subdued the meringues against their goal in a first half with hardly any opposition. Pedri set the pace of the match in The Charterhouse of Seville at 5′. Everything changed in the second half. Madrid found its best version and played aggressive football; To do this, Ancelotti decided to press the alarm buttons and activated the injured player. Kylian Mbappéwho had started the game on the substitutes’ bench. The Frenchman, reserved for emergency situations, pushed Madrid, which came back from the initial 1-0 in seven minutes with French contribution (Tchoaueméni 70′ and Mbappé 77′). The whites had control of the match, until a false start by Courtois left the ball served to Ferran Torres for 2-2. In extra time, when penalties loomed at the end of the tunnel, Jules Koundé He unleashed a shell after a mistaken pass by Luka Modric. Then, controversy, three Real Madrid expulsions, a fight. The madness.
2 – Manchester United 5-4 Olympique Lyon | second leg quarterfinals of the Europa League 2024-2025
There are unusual matches and this one. Nothing made sense that April night in Old Trafford. It was enough for United to win in their ‘Theatre’ to reach the semi-finals of the Europa League for the first time since 2017, but they decided to do it in the most extreme and psychotic way possible. Ugarte and Dalot They brought things to a successful conclusion (2-0) until the 70th minute, when Tolisso could shake in the middle of Manchester. The worst omens were confirmed at 77′, when Tagliafico The overall score tied at 4. In overtime, total insanity was unleashed. formerly of Arsenal, forced United to perform one of those biblical miracles. One of those that happen every so often, like the one in 1999. And it happened. Bruno Fernandes He converted a controversial penalty on Casemiro and that’s where the surrealism began. Shot of Kobbie Mainoo at 120′ and header Harry Maguire al 120′+1. Three goals in six minutes; two in one. ‘The Theater of Dreams’ exploded like on those great European nights. United advanced to the semifinals with an overall score of 7-6. You will never see anything like it.
1 – Inter Milan 4-3 Barcelona | second leg semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League 2024-2025
If we talk about emotions, that match on May 6 in the Giuseppe Meazza It has no parallel. After an incredible 3-3 in the Montjuic OlympicInter and Barcelona had to decide who would face PSG in the final of the Champions League. The match continued with the crazy tone of the first leg. Lautaro and Calhanoglu made the tie uphill for Barcelona, but the magic of Lamine Yamal prompted an impossible comeback. With goals from Eric Garcia, Dani Olmo and Raphinhathe Blaugranas seemed to be heading towards their first Champions League final since 2015. 10 years of drought would come to an end. Until at expiration, Francesco Acerbi he finished off a ball that Dumfries he won out of nowhere on the right side. Two minutes earlier, Lamine had hit the post. And, during the second half, Yann Sommer He took three shots on goal from his goal. Frattesiat the beginning of extra time, caused delirium. Inter later lost by a landslide in the Champions League final against PSG, but their previous step went down in history.
Bonus – Paris Saint-Germain 5-0 Inter de Milan | UEFA Champions League final 2024-2025
The greatest demonstration of football in the year corresponded to PSG. What the team played Luis Enrique That May 31 at the Allianz Arena in Munich will transcend as an example of style, good taste and offensive play. He Inter Milan He did not put his hands in front of the Parisian machine that finally left behind the obsession of so many years. Achraf, Kvaratskhelia, Mayulu and Doué, With a double, they awarded the first ‘Orejona’ for life to PSG.
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