La Liga: Real Madrid 2 (Mbappé 22, Bellingham 43) Barcelona 1 (Lopez 38)
The clock in Santiago Bernabéu showed 98min 40sec when Pedri picked up the ball on the edge of his area and went on the final run of an exhausting afternoon. Here perhaps was one last chance to get something, the Barcelona midfielder somehow hauling himself up the pitch; instead, as he reached the other area, a tired, loose touch, a desperate lunge to get it back, saw him take out Aurélien Tchouaméni – the world upside down – and get sent off. And so the clásico was over, bar the shouting and the pushing.
There was plenty of that, players squaring then and again when the whistle at last went a few seconds later, Thibaut Courtois and Lamine Yamal, Vinícius Júnior and Raphinha, who wasn’t even playing, confronting each other. But it was Madrid who celebrated. They had gone at it for over an hour then just about controlled it.
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