Barcelona thrash Real Madrid 4-0 at Bernabeu

Barcelona’s Robert Lewandowski scored a quick-fire second-half treble to acceptable the leaders connected people for a 4-0 thrashing of Real Madrid that handed the hosts its archetypal decision successful 42 LaLiga games successful a sensational Clasico brushwood connected Saturday.

The Polish striker pounced with 2 goals successful 3 minutes aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional earlier Lamine Yamal astatine 17 years and 106 days aged became the youngest Clasico scorer and skipper Raphinha wrapped up a comfy triumph precocious connected astatine a stunned Bernabeu.
Barca stretched its pb astatine the apical with 30 points, six supra Real who saw its unbeaten LaLiga tally travel to a bitter extremity aft 13 months, leaving it 1 tantalizing affirmative effect distant from equaling the Catalans’ league grounds of 43.

After 4 consecutive Clasico defeats, Barcelona claimed its archetypal triumph implicit Real since March 2023 successful benignant with a objective show successful which it was existent to manager Hansi Flick’s ideas of gambling with an aggressively precocious defense.

The visitant was much than comfy playing connected the counter-attack, exploiting the lightning velocity of Raphinha and Yamal to assistance provender LaLiga apical scorer Lewandowski.

Real was connected apical astatine the commencement but became frustrated arsenic it wasted respective chances, chiefly done disconnected signifier Kylian Mbappé who missed 4 wide opening from close-range and was caught offside 9 times, including having 2 goals ruled out.

Despite Real dominating proceedings, Barca kept playing its risk-taking tactics and the gamble paid disconnected erstwhile Lewandowski silenced the assemblage with a two-goal blitz successful the 54th and 56th minutes to scope 14 goals successful 11 league games.

The big tried to get backmost into the contention but its batch of missed opportunities continued with Vinicius Jr, Jude Bellingham and Mbappé wasting wide openings that infuriated their fans, who started booing the players.

Barcelona kept playing its crippled and it was a substance of clip until it ended the contention with 2 much goals connected the antagonistic done the precocious Yamal aft 77 minutes and the ever unsafe Raphinha six minutes from time.

“We are precise happy, precise happy. To triumph present similar this is simply a large victory,” Lewandowski told DAZN.

“The play is long, but this triumph tin assistance america with a batch more, with assurance and shot ... truthful acold we haven’t won anything, but the important happening is that we person a wide idea, we cognize wherever we privation to spell on.”

Mbappé’s disconnected cardinal show volition person accrued the increasing interest successful the Spanish superior implicit the France captain’s dilatory commencement astatine Real since helium arrived from Paris St Germain successful June.

Three of the 8 goals helium has scored for Real successful his archetypal 13 games were penalties and helium has recovered the nett lone erstwhile successful the past 5 matches successful each competitions.

Mbappé has struggled to link with Vinicius Jr, Bellingham and Rodrygo up front, raising questions implicit however helium fits into a Real squad who person conscionable enjoyed a palmy play without him, having won a Champions League and LaLiga double.

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