Now the Barcelona team seems to be somehow led by Lewandowski, Barca, which is in third place in the Spanish La Liga, won the Super Cup by defeating Real Madrid in El Clasico on Monday.
There are also those who do not enjoy the Spanish La Liga for this reason. However, since the season of 2004-2005, if there is a champion in Spanish league football in two decades, it is either Real Madrid or Barcelona. Twice in between a team has disrupted their singles and that is, Atlético Madrid.
Isn't the same characteristic of this season? At the moment, Atletico are playing really hard.
If you take a look at this season's points table, Atlético is ahead. At the halfway point in the league, Atletico lead the way with 44 points, followed by Real, with 43 points. Barcelona are further behind on 38 points. There is a difference of 6 points between Atletico and Barcelona. Atlético beat Osasuna 1-0 in their last match. With this victory, Atletico climbed to the top of the points table.
While Atlético was celebrating this achievement, Barcelona was even happier. Geographically far away is the joy that Barcelona has embraced, the Spanish Supercup title. Saudi Arabia hosts the Super Cup between two of the biggest football nations. One was Italy, the other Spain. There were four teams in the Spanish Super Cup. Barcelona and Real reached the final. In this way, the final in Jeddah was the second "El Clasico" of this season.
Barcelona's performance in that match was largely high. Barcelona won the game 5-2 despite Real taking the lead early on. What did Barcelona kiss this success, now it has started to say, Barcelona has woken up. Barcelona's performances on the other side of the New Year and Christmas continued to be poor. The start of the season was great for Barcelona. It was a long time won. That's why it stayed at the top of the points table for a long time.
But once they started to lose, Barcelona's situation became a losing one. But the middle interval has benefited Barcelona. In this final too, Real took the lead with Kylin Mbappe's goal. Lamin Yamal then equalized for Barcelona. After that, Robert Lewandowski scored one goal from the penalty, Rafinha scored two goals and Alejandro Blad scored one goal.
Rodrigo pulls back a goal for Real. But what difference could it have made to the outcome? This is Barcelona's third consecutive win since 2025. At the end of 2024, this team was defeated in two consecutive matches. Now the Barcelona team seems to be led by Lewandowski in a way. He is a veteran player. However, the goal is coming from him. He has played 27 games for Barcelona this season in all competitions.
And in the meantime, the number of goals he has scored has reached 26. Lewandowski himself says, "The Christmas break benefited us. Where was the problem in the team? The last match at the Bernabeu was in the league and Barcelona were surprisingly victorious 4-0. After this time's final loss, Real coach Carlos Ansolati said, "It was a very bad game." There was no place to hide the disappointment.'
If we return to Barcelona again, football connoisseurs have not been able to forget the time when Lionel Messi was there. That's why it's always been said that when Messi was in Barcelona, something like this would happen. Perhaps, to a large extent, Barcelona has already learned to live without Messi. However, the charm in Barcelona has not returned, which was when Messi was there. The question is, if any player to replace Messi came to Barcelona?
When Barcelona lost its rhythm, Atlético started a series of excellent performances. Therefore, the win over Osasuna was his 14th consecutive win in all competitions. Julian Alvarez scored the only goal of the game. Atlético have won all their matches since October. So, if there is one team in Spain that is in true form, it is Atlético.
Real's game has dropped a bit from here. Not only in Barcelona, but in the whole of Spanish football, Real star Kylin Mbappe, who is expected to take Messi's place, is believed to be lagging behind due to the poor performance. But Mbappe's first goal against Barcelona should be seen, it is unique. From the middle of the field, he took the ball forward alone and scored a goal. So, is he back on track? There is a similar belief in Barcelona.
In this case, the triangular bid in Spanish football this time will be interesting.
