Barcelona sported a different look, with a twist on its iconic jersey, in Sunday’s 250th “El Clásico” against Real Madrid.
The jerseys bore the owl-shaped logo of the Canadian rapper Drake’s company thanks to a new 12-year sponsorship deal with Spotify as well as Drake’s 50 billion streams on the site, for the game in Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. But the result was the same as it has been in six of the teams’ last seven meetings. Real Madrid won, 3-1, handing Barcelona its first La Liga loss this season.
It was a sobering loss for Barcelona, which went on a roughly $140 million spending spree to land players such as Polish striker Robert Lewandowski and Brazilian winger Raphinha, and remains in need of a small miracle to avoid Champions League group-stage elimination for the second straight year.