Madrid vs Barça: Final Showdown Confirmed

BarcelonaA classic in Arab lands. It’s starting to become a kind of tradition that the Saudis can enjoy live what they wanted to see, which is why they scratched their pockets: this Sunday, Barça and Madrid will face each other in the Supercopa final. Xabi Alonso’s Madrid came out of the derby alive against an Atlético with wet powder, despite competing without Mbappé. And the Federation and the Saudis have the dream final. The format of the competition, once it was decided to invite four teams, was already made for this, to try to have more options to have the main course on the table on the day of the final. A classic The whole football world will taste it.

Real Madrid, which recently seemed half-dead and had the coach, Xabi Alonso, one step away from dismissal, has seven lives, like cats. He has spent some of it in recent months, but if he wins the Super Cup, the Basque coach will be able to breathe. If last season’s result is repeated on Sunday, when Flick smashed Ancelotti’s board, maybe Florentino Pérez will send Xabi Alonso off. who knows The Basque lives with the sword of Damocles over his head.

Madrid have shown that they can win without the injured Mbappé. The semi-final against Atlético had more rhythm and excitement than the first, when Atlético fell apart without offering any resistance to Barça. Gonzalo, the youngster asking for a move to Madrid, didn’t do much. But the whites were able to win in a style that fit more with the club’s past, imposing without shining, than with what the former Bayer Leverkusen manager supposedly wants. Right now Alonso is limited to surviving, without making a team grow footballistically that was very eager to be able to return the blow from the last League match to Simeone. And things went well for Madrid at the start, as Fede Valverde scored a beautiful free-kick three minutes into the game. A badly placed defensive fence by Oblak helped, but the Uruguayan looked like Roberto Carlos for a moment, as he ripped the ball away.

The white team, relinquishing possession, knew how to stop most of the attacks from Simeone’s team, who took advantage of being on the sideline to go after Vinícius. “Florentino will kick you out,” he went so far as to tell him. And the hot-blooded Brazilian kept coming back. It didn’t play well for a Vini who fights his ghosts, imagining that the stadium is full of windmills attacking him. His lackluster game ended in the 80th minute, when Alonso sent him to the bench. And he decided to go find Simeone and cause a fight. Vinícius has not been focused on football for a long time.

Atlético carried the brunt of the match, but Courtois stopped them all and Sorloth missed one all by himself. Julián didn’t have the day and Madrid waited for the moment to surprise, as Rodrygo would do at the start of the second half. But Sorloth, now yes, was able to score a quick goal to keep the game alive. There was half an hour left to play, but Atlético didn’t have the day and they would be fed up with missing chances, like Julián’s clear one in the last minute. And Madrid overcomes a new test, suffering and not getting excited. Barça will be their judge this Sunday. It will be more than a final.