FC Barcelona was proclaimed champion of the Spanish Super Cup after beating Real Madrid 2-3. A match that had excitement until the end and that was played during the 90 minutes of the match. Xabi Alonso’s team showed a better face compared to the semifinal against Atlético de Madrid but it was not enough to defeat Hansi Flick’s Barça.
An ending that was repeated as in 2024, and that ended in the same way: with the Barça club lifting the cup. With this result, Real Madrid has managed to reach a milestone that the Madrid fans will not like.
And despite having dominated in recent years, being a more than reliable team in the grand finals, The last year has been disastrous for the Madrid entity. So much so that this trend of winning finals seems to have stopped dead.
The great fact that highlights this Real Madrid
There was a time when Real Madrid got its fans used to winning finals. The whites had something special that made them end up being superior to their rival, managing to win a multitude of titles. However, in this last year the whites have lost that “power.”
And it is that of the last three finals played, the Real Madrid he has lost all three. Furthermore, in all of them it coincides that the executioner is FC Barcelona, which has known how to make the white team bitter in the last three major confrontations.
Furthermore, the data is more surprising if the finals from years ago are taken into account. In the last 15 years, Real Madrid played 30 finals in total and managed to add 25 wins and five lossesa spectacular figure within the reach of very few.
With these data, Madrid left a victory percentage of 84%something that is far from achieved after this bad streak.
Three finals lost against FC Barcelona in the last year
The great executioner of this Real Madrid is FC Barcelona. In the last year, There are three finals lost against Hansi Flick’s Barcelonarevealing the club’s bad moment. The first defeat was in the Spanish Super Cup last January 2025, where the Blaugrana team beat Carlo Ancelotti’s team 2-5.
Later, in April 2025, Madrid fell in the final of Copa del Rey against Barça 3-2 and, finally, the whites have lost again to Hansi Flick’s team in the current Super Cup.
Barça, quite the opposite
For its part, Hansi Flick’s Barcelona is managing to be a reliable team in the finals. The German coach has returned the enthusiasm in Barcelonaand the data proves it. They are eight of eight finals won in his careerfive with Bayern Munich and three with Barcelona.
The first life or death match he played was the 2020 German Cupin July, in the middle of the pandemic, in which they beat Bayer Leverkusen 4-2. In that unforgettable season for him and for the Bavarian team, he also won the Champions1-0 in the final against Neymar’s PSG in the same edition in which he beat what is now his team 2-8; the European Super Cup2-1 to Sevilla; and the German Super Cup3-2 at Borussia Dortmund.
Halfway between that course and the next, in February 2021, he took the Club World Cup by beating the Mexican Tigres in the last match, 1-0, thus completing what was the second perfect year in the history of football, six titles out of six (the finals plus the Bundesliga), as Guardiola’s Barça had achieved in 2009.
Regarding his time with Barcelona, the rival in the three finals has always been the same, Real Madrid, which multiplies the merit of what has been achieved. In the 2025 Super Cup they won clearly, 5-2; A few months later he needed extra time, in which Koundé scored, to lift the Cup in La Cartuja; and now he has repeated in Saudi Arabia in a closely contested duel.
