Robert Lewandowski has scored twice and Lamine Yamal piled on to damage Kylian Mbappé’s first clasico as Barcelona romped to a 4-0 win over Actual Madrid.
Barcelona ended Madrid’s unbeaten run in La Liga at 42 video games by dealing Carlo Ancelotti’s facet their first loss since Septemer 23 final yr.
Lewandowski scored from an excellent go by Barcelona’s newest youth expertise Marc Casadó within the 54th minute and headed in a second aim three minutes later to silence Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on Saturday night time.
These have been objectives sixteenth and seventeenth total for the Poland striker this season, taking his league-best tally to 14. He additionally hit the put up.
Yamal made it a rout within the 77th when the teenage star rifled a shot from an angle over goalkeeper Andriy Lunin. Raphinha acquired concerned within the burgundy-and-blue social gathering when he broke free with Madrid urgent ahead and chipped Lunin within the 84th.
Mbappé had a irritating first sport towards Barcelona in a white shirt.
The France star was repeatedly caught offside by Barcelona’s synchronised again 4 and didn’t beat second-choice goalkeeper Iñaki Peña one-on-one along with his crew down two objectives.
Hansi Flick, in the meantime, had an evening to recollect within the first clasico for the German coach.
Barcelona nonetheless has monetary troubles that forged doubt over its future however its crew have made enormous steps ahead since Flick changed Barcelona nice Xavi Hernández in the summertime.
Barcelona opened a six-point lead on the high of La Liga over second-placed Madrid after 11 rounds.
“We had a tricky week with robust video games, however we knew the right way to pull it out. We performed a terrific sport,” Casadó, an unknown reserve crew participant till Flick picked him to be his holding midfielder, mentioned after his spectacular outing.
Casadó was one in all 5 homegrown gamers that Flick put in his beginning lineup, the identical 11 that beat Bayern Munich 4-1 within the Champions League three days earlier than.
A complete of six gamers underneath 22 years outdated began for Barcelona, led by 17-year-olds Yamal and Pau Cubarsí, and confirmed no indicators of being intimidated by the state of affairs.
Yamal upstaged Mbappé this summer season when Spain beat France en path to successful the European Championship, and he did it once more when he displayed the completion that Mbappé was missing.
Mbappé himself was dominated offside a minimum of 5 occasions within the first half hour, as Barcelona pressed excessive up the sphere. Vinícius Júnior, who featured in an interesting duel with Cubarsí, missed a golden likelihood within the twenty first when he shot previous the put up from shut.
