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Real Madrid and Barcelona players get into a scuffle aft the afloat clip whistle astatine the Santiago Bernabeu (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 2-1 astatine the Santiago Bernabéu connected Sunday, moving 5 points wide astatine the apical of La Liga. Jude Bellingham scored the decisive extremity successful the archetypal half, helping Xabi Alonso’s broadside drawback Barcelona’s winning streak successful El Clásicos from past season. Kylian Mbappé opened the scoring for Madrid with a debased decorativeness aft Bellingham’s clever pass, earlier Fermin López equalised for Barcelona successful the 38th minute, assisted by Marcus Rashford.
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Bellingham restored Madrid’s pb 5 minutes later, tapping successful aft Eder Militao nodded Vinicius Jr.’s transverse backmost into his path. Barcelona dominated possession successful the archetypal half, but Madrid were much unsafe connected the break. An aboriginal punishment for Madrid was overturned aft VAR review, and Mbappé had a extremity disallowed for offside. Later, a punishment awarded to Madrid aft Eric Garcia’s handball was denied by a good prevention from Wojciech Szczesny. Barcelona were missing respective cardinal players, including Raphinha, Robert Lewandowski, and Dani Olmo. Lamine Yamal, returning from a groin injury, struggled to power the game, sending a long-range effort good implicit the barroom successful the 2nd half.
Madrid maintained power successful the closing stages, bringing connected Rodrygo and Brahim Diaz, portion Barcelona had fewer attacking options. Even a precocious effort from Ronald Araujo, pushed guardant arsenic a makeshift striker, failed to endanger Thibaut Courtois. Tensions boiled implicit successful the last moments, with Pedri sent disconnected for a 2nd yellowish paper aft a precocious foul connected Aurelien Tchouameni.
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A little sideline clash followed, with players from some sides progressive aft the last whistle. The triumph marks Madrid’s ninth triumph successful 10 league games this play and highlighted their quality to execute successful high-pressure matches, portion Barcelona proceed to negociate squad limitations nether Marcus Sorg, lasting successful for suspended manager Hansi Flick.
