Barcelona faces Real Madrid in a new El Clásico in the Spanish Super Cup | sports

Tomorrow, Sunday, King Abdullah Sports City Stadium (the Radiant Jewel) will host the El Clásico match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup final.

This is the fifth time that Saudi Arabia has hosted the tournament, and the third in a row that the final match of the Super Cup will witness a confrontation between El Clásico, as the two teams exchanged wins in 2023 and 2024.

Since the tournament began with the participation of 4 teams beginning in 2020, Barcelona or Real Madrid have won the title in the last 3 editions, knowing that the team that won this tournament won the Spanish League title at the end of the season.

The appearance of the two teams may have changed since the last time they met last October, but Barcelona hopes to achieve the same result.

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick’s men showed that they are the real candidates to win the Spanish League title after they won that match 4-0.

The match revealed some flaws within the ranks of the Real Madrid team, led by Carlo Ancelotti, but they have been addressed now, as Real Madrid leads the Spanish League, by 5 points ahead of Barcelona, ​​which is in third place.

This will be the 259th confrontation between the two teams in all official competitions, and Barcelona won 101 matches, while Real Madrid won 105 matches, and tied 52 matches, which confirms the intense rivalry between the two teams.

This also appears in the goals, as Barcelona scored 423 goals against Real Madrid, while Real Madrid scored 433 goals against Barcelona.

This will be the 18th confrontation between the two teams in the Spanish Super Cup, and Real Madrid has the advantage, having won 10 matches, lost 5 and tied in two matches.

Barcelona is the team that has won the Super Cup the most with 14 times, but Real Madrid can equal its record if it wins tomorrow’s match, as it has won the title 13 previous times.

Barcelona was able to cross the hurdle of Athletic Bilbao after defeating them with two clean goals, while Real Madrid beat Real Mallorca by three clean goals.

Through this match, Real Madrid aims to win its third title this season, after winning the European Super Cup and the Confederations Cup at the beginning of this season.

It can be said that Real Madrid was not always at its best in the first half of the season, but there were signs that things were starting to improve in recent weeks, which could be bad news for its competitors at the local and European levels.

Real Madrid enters the match ecstatic to have achieved 5 consecutive victories, including victory in the first 3 matches of this year, where it defeated Valencia, in a postponed league match, and Deportiva Minera in the cup, then Mallorca in the Super Cup.

On the other hand, it seemed that Barcelona was on its way to taking the lead in the Spanish League and getting very close to winning the title this season, but the team faltered recently, achieving a single victory in the last 7 league matches, which made the team fall to third place.

Barcelona, ​​led by Flick, ended the year 2024 with two defeats against Leganes and Atletico Madrid, but at the beginning of this year the team was able to achieve victory in its two matches, as it defeated Barbastro 4-0 in the King’s Cup and Bilbao with 2-0 in the semi-finals of the Super Cup.

Barcelona seeks to continue its recent victories by defeating Real Madrid and crowning its 15th title in the tournament.