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Super Cup revenge a dish best served cold by Barcelona

Related Topics: Hansi Flick, UEFA Super Cup

Let’s be honest. No one expected that! Or maybe some did after the way Real Madrid were demolished at the Santiago Bernabeu earlier in the season.

Lightning rarely strikes twice, but on this occasion the fact it did was poetry in motion.

Real Madrid had a brief glimmer of hope when Barca were down to 10 men, and the only annoyance from a Blaugrana perspective is that the red card arguably stopped the Catalans from legitimately scoring seven or eight. Yes, Barcelona were that good.

At 4-1 at half-time, how many of you were chuckling away in the knowledge that Los Blancos had effectively let in eight goals in 90 minutes against their arch rivals!