Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-1 and won the Spanish Super Cup, in the final held at the King Fahd stadium in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The Catalan team was clearly superior to the people from Madrid, to be left with a well-deserved victory and take over the Spanish Super Cup, which the finalists repeated for the second consecutive year, but with different winners.
This title has an important added value: it is the first for Barca in the post-Messi era, since since Leo left in mid-2021 for Paris Saint Germain, the blaugrana did not know what it was to lift a Cup.
The last time Barcelona came out champion was on April 17, 2021, when they won the Copa del Rey by beating Athletic Bilbao 4-0 in the final. In that game, Messi had scored the last two goals. A year and nine months passed for the Catalans to celebrate a title again without the @Pulga@ in their ranks. If you travel back in time, the last Barca title without Messi you have to travel to 2005.
The goals from Gavi (33), Robert Lewandowski (45) and Pedri (69), barely tarnished by Karim Benzema (90+3), gave Barça its fourteenth Super Cup, the first since this trophy began to be played in the form of a tournament to four three years ago.
Meanwhile, in France, Messi suffered… Paris Saint Germain, with the star from Rosario world champion in Qatar 2022, Lionel Messi, lost to Rennes as a visitor 1-0, added his second defeat in the French Ligue 1 soccer , but remains the leader of the contest, at the close of the nineteenth date.
Malian midfielder Hamari Traoré, 20 minutes into the second half, scored for the local team, allowing them to celebrate their eleventh victory in the tournament and stay in fifth place with 37 points, in addition to staying in the qualifying zone for the Liga de Europe Conference.
The Parisian team, for its part, added its second defeat in the French soccer tournament, both during 2023 and both as visitors, although its leadership is not in danger for this date, since it has 47 points and takes 3 from its immediate pursuer Lens (44), who beat Auxerre 1-0.
In addition, the star from Rosario, awarded as the best footballer of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, played his second game of the year on this date, last Wednesday he scored the second goal for the Parisian team in their 2-0 win against Angers, at home.
In any case, despite the presence of Messi and having the Brazilian Neymar from the start of the match, PSG did a pale job and was deservedly surpassed by an enthusiastic Rennes.
9 minutes into the second half, the French striker Kylian Mbappé entered and shared the game with Messi, for the first time after the Argentine national team beat France in the world final on penalties and was crowned champion in the World Cup. Qatar 2022.
Despite the entry of Mbappé, who was applauded by the entire Rennes stadium, plus the presence of Messi and Neymar, the most anticipated trident for PSG, nothing changed and Rennes was left with a just victory.
Source: Ambito
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