Real Madrid 4-1 BarcelonaVinícius hat-trick overwhelms Barça in one-sided final
By the end, Barcelona just wanted to go home, any hope long since having left them. Real Madrid would have happily stayed out there for a little longer: first playing, which they did so well here, and then celebrating their success. A first half hat-trick from Vinícius Júnior carried them to victory over Barcelona and the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia which was a destruction.
Only three players have scored a clasico hat-trick that this century – Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema – and even Cristiano Ronaldo hasn’t, which didn’t stop Vinícius paying tribute. At the Al Awwal Park, he celebrated his goals the way the Portugal forward did, a nod to history on the night when he made his own. For Jude Bellingham this was significant too, his first trophy at Madrid. It won’t be his last. In all probability it won’t even be his last this season. He might have expected this; he might not have expected it to be so apparently easy, wrapped up so early.