Real Madrid won the first post-Messi derby (1-2) with a goal from Alaba in the first half that Barcelona, ​​as willful as it was harmless, was unable to come back. Lucas Vazquez and Aguero scored in the addition, in an even match and with few scoring chances.
Barca went out to look for Madrid from the start, eager to please a practically full Camp Nou, which today recovered all its splendorfor the first time since the pandemic. Thus, the first twenty minutes were of clear local dominance, until the white team began to stretch and Vinicius to activate himself on the left wing to begin to sow doubt in the Barca defense.
Alaba’s goal after a great chance by Dest
In his first appearance in the area, the Brazilian claimed a penalty for a push from Miguenzathat the referee did not grant. And shortly after, Barcelona would have the first chance of the game in a play down the left by Memphis that ended with the ball in Dest’s boots. The American side, who today acted again as a winger, inexplicably sent the ball into the clouds with Courtois practically beaten. And it is that there are at least three certainties in this life: that we will all die one day, that the water is wet and that Koeman’s Barca has less punch than the team of an asylum.
Quite the opposite of Real Madrid, who in their first clear arrival, after half an hour, only needed to link four passes in one against for Alaba to shoot Ter Stegen with a cross shot with his left foot to make it 0-1.
Ancelotti, who repeated the eleven that thrashed Shakhtar, was clear about the script from the first minute, withstand the timid attacks of his rival and hurt the counterattack. Pique was able to equalize soon after, but headed too far across a Memphis corner kick, and Alaba blocked a shot from Ansu Fati, assisted by Jordi Alba, shortly before the end of the first half.
Impotent Barca after the break
Koeman moved to the bench at the break, bringing on Coutinho for Mingueza, delaying Dest to the side and going from a 4-4-3 to a 4-2-3-1, with the Brazilian attacker recently admitted acting in the midfield. The same retouch that the Dutch coach did, with little success, four days earlier, in the Champions League against Dynamo Kiev. All in all, Barca came out again with more ambition than Real Madrid at the start of the restart but, like many games this season, it was again a want and I can’t.
Ancelotti’s men, comfortable in the withdrawal, left wear and tear for the rival, and were even able to sentence in two actions by Benzema. The first was a volley after the hour that the German goalkeeper saved and, ten minutes later, the Frenchman stumbled on the goal line and was unable to finish off an assist from Mendy. Barcelona, ​​on the other hand, only got close to Courtois’s goal with a shot from Dest and a header from the recently entered Aguero, both deflected.
Two goals in added
time With time running out, Barca was desperately looking for an equalizer but Pique was unable to finish off a center from Memphis and, while claiming a penalty, Madrid put together their umpteenth counterattack.
This time it was Asensio , who has just entered as a refresher, who stood alone in front of Ter Stegen. And this deflected his shot to the boots of Lucas Vazquez, who did not forgive the second.
On the next play, Kun scored the local goal in a pure 9 action, but it was already too late for Koeman’s team. Madrid stormed the Camp Nou again in another exciting classic, but it has dropped a couple of steps in terms of entertainment and in terms of talent.
