Hansi Flick won his first title in command of the Barcelona and he may have slapped away the doubts that have been haunting him for the last two months. There is no better medicine for a great than to beat the other and do it like the Barça team did. It was better with eleven and it was not worse when it was left with one less and the most hopeful Madridistas dreamed that they heard the famous drums of the comeback.
There weren’t any becauseReal Madrid fell apart in Jeddah. Carlo Ancelotti believed that he had found the team after giving it a lot of thought, with Camavinga and Valverde in the center of the field, but what was seen in the Super Cup final is that he is not working hard enough or that he is not capable of competing in matches against rivals of the same level.
Madrid was full of holes and Barcelona did not waste them: inside or with balls from the wing, with Lewandowski receiving in the center, with Rapinha looking like a huge player, with Yamal leaving a drop of cologne on each ball he touched or with He married spinning with an experience that refutes what his identity card says.
Against that, the Madrid was not supportivethat word that the Italian coach repeats so much and that his players must not understand. For Camavinga and Valverde the field became long and wide. They couldn’t plug all the water leaks. The Frenchman also showed that he still has time to be a rigorous defensive midfielder.
It didn’t help that Tchouameni is wasting his technical and physical qualities. As a midfielder he has not been able to perform as expected and as a defender, he has to learn too many things. Almost nothing worked at Real Madrid. That almost was Kylian Mbappé, who didn’t stop trying to uncheck.
Mbappé did not accompany him and Rodrygo had two appearances: one to celebrate at the beginning of the game a ball recovered in his corner and another, when he scored the free kick that scored the second goal for the Whites, something that was insufficient. And he left bad news for the whites: he did not know how to attack when, for once, the match had been put in his face, for once.