MADRID — Robert Lewandowski scored twice, whereas Lamine Yamal and Raphinha tallied objectives every, as Barcelona capped a outstanding week by routing Actual Madrid 4-0 in Saturday’s Clásico on the Santiago Bernabéu. With the lopsided loss, Actual Madrid noticed their 42-game unbeaten streak in LaLiga ended.

Veteran striker Lewandowski scored twice in three second-half minutes to set Barça on their approach, with Yamal firing the third into the roof of the web and Raphinha lofting the fourth over the pinnacle of goalkeeper Andriy Lunin, who was filling in for injured Thibaut Courtois.

The win comes simply three days after Barça trounced Bayern Munich 4-1 within the Champions League, and it strikes them six factors away from rivals Madrid on the high of the LaLiga desk after 11 video games.

Madrid had not misplaced within the league since falling to Atlético Madrid initially of final season, and even a draw right here would have seen them draw degree with Barça’s LaLiga report 43-game unbeaten streak.

Nonetheless, after a scoreless first half by which Kylian Mbappé and Actual Madrid wasted a slew of probabilities, Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect had been torn aside by a ruthless Barça aspect, whose unbelievable begin to the season below new coach Hansi Flick continued on the house of their greatest rivals.

Listed below are the massive speaking factors from El Clásico:

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Mbappé has a Clásico debut to overlook

This was purported to be the Clásico of Mbappé, his first since becoming a member of Madrid from Paris Saint-Germain in the summertime within the greatest blockbuster transfer of the summer time switch window. He has at all times loved taking part in Barça, scoring six occasions in opposition to them in 4 appearances with the French aspect, however his luck was out on Saturday.

An early miss, later dominated offside, set the tone for a night of misses and offside calls. A kind of calls was given after he thought he had opened the scoring, dinking the ball over Iñaki Peña, however VAR revealed he mistimed his run behind Iñigo Martínez.

In whole, Mbappe was caught offside six occasions within the first half, greater than any recreation beforehand in his profession, earlier than one other two offside calls within the second half. His eight offside calls in a single recreation is tied for probably the most of any participant within the final 15 LaLiga seasons.

His first official shot on objective did not arrive till the 61st minute in the long run. Extra adopted, in addition to one other offside objective, however his ending left one thing to be desired. Peña denied him whenever. He may have realized a factor or two from Lewandowski on the different finish.

It has not been a disastrous begin to his Madrid profession by any means, however these are the video games on which he was signed to have an effect.

He has eight objectives in all competitions thus far, however the feeling is Madrid followers are nonetheless ready for him to click on in a new-look assault alongside Vinícius Júnior and with Jude Bellingham behind.

There was palpable frustration from supporters as extra offside calls adopted within the second half and the sport, maybe fittingly, ended with one other offside flag and one other save from Peña as Mbappé raced by way of.

Lewandowski anchors the youthful revolution at Barcelona

Barça fielded their second-youngest staff in a Clásico fixture in 80 years and their youngest since 1956. The difference-maker, although, was 36-year-old Lewandowski, who wrestled the sport away from Madrid with a masterclass in ending initially of the second half.

The Poland worldwide, performed onside by Ferland Mendy, completed brilliantly within the 54th minute after being performed by way of by Marc Casadó after which, three minutes later, guided an excellent header previous Lunin from Alejandro Balde’s left wing cross.

Lewandowski’s type was criticised at occasions final season, however he has been good below his former Bayern boss Flick. He has now netted 14 objectives in LaLiga in simply 11 appearances this season — and 17 in all competitions. He’s benefitting from staying extra central, getting extra of the ball in and across the space and letting the kids do the working round him.

It was one of many children, 17-year-old Yamal, who took the sport away from Madrid late on. Predominantly left-footed, he maybe caught Madrid out by taking his probability early on his proper foot, blazing the ball previous Lunin as a surprised silence fell across the Bernabeu. In doing so, Yamal grew to become the youngest scorer within the Clásico.

Raphinha, recent from a midweek hat trick, added the fourth and Barça will look again at missed probabilities earlier than Yamal’s objective — one completely obvious miss from Lewandowski particularly — and marvel if they could have scored much more on the evening.

Barça’s excessive line reaps rewards once more

A theme of Barça’s season has been their aggressive excessive line, together with their relentless urgent. Earlier than the Clásico, they’d the very best defensive position in LaLiga at 61 yards when the ball is within the opposition half. In consequence, they’ve drawn over 70 offsides this season — greater than double every other aspect within the high 5 European leagues.

After coming although the Bayern check in midweek, the massive query was whether or not they would pull it off in opposition to Madrid, Mbappé and Vinícius?

There have been some bushy moments within the first half, not least the disallowed objective from Mbappé, however Pau Cubarsí and Martínez caught to their job, caught as near the midway line as doable and caught Madrid offside repeatedly. Ultimately, Los Blancos had been offside 12 occasions within the recreation — and eight within the first half alone.

The offside entice was helped by the relentless urgent in midfield and additional ahead from the likes of Casadó, Fermín López and Raphinha, with the previous rewarded with an help for the opening objective. It feels as if this staff below Flick may go far now.

Ancelotti has work to do along with his Actual Madrid staff of superstars

No matter approach you have a look at it, it was a disastrous evening for Madrid. Not solely did they lose their lengthy unbeaten run and fall six factors behind Barça in LaLiga, however they suffered their third-largest loss in LaLiga of all time. They haven’t suffered a bigger defeat at house within the league since 1974.

It brings again to the the floor various points which have been current all through this season, even when they’ve typically been papered over by good particular person shows, comparable to Vinícius’ hat trick within the midweek comeback in opposition to Borussia Dortmund.

Nonetheless, they deeply miss Toni Kroos. What Mbappé and Vinícius would do to have his passing in behind. There may be nonetheless one thing missing in assault, regardless of the apparent high quality, and there’s the Bellingham situation. He’s with no objective in 11 video games this season after registering a career-high 23 final time period.

To cap all of it off, with Courtois and David Alaba lacking, they collapsed defensively within the second half.

The season remains to be younger, and Madrid have a behavior of peaking when it issues, however Ancelotti has work to do.