The Spanish Super Cup is always a big affair, and it’s elevated when the combatants are _El Clasico_ rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The game lived up to the hype with four first-half goals and a tense second half between Real and Barca, and we’ll flesh out these ratings as the postgame rolls into the celebration.
**Barcelona lineup**
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**Joan Garcia**: 7.5 — Five saves and good control of his box. Excellent with the ball.
**Alex Balde**: 5 — Industrious but below his standards.
**Pau Cubarsi**: 6 — Could’ve done much better on Vini Jr’s goal.
**Eric Garcia** (Off 83'): 6.5 — Barca’s CB duo were not exceptional, but Garcia was the better of the two.
**Jules Kounde**: 5 — Roasted by Vini Jr on the first Real goal.
**Frenkie De Jong**: 5.5 — Got better as the game went further, making some key interventions. His stoppage-time red card stings
**Pedri**: 8 — A chief chance creator, his assist to Lewandowski recalled so many perfect speed/timing connections between Iniesta and center forwards in _Blaugrana_.
**Lamine Yamal (Off 90')**: 7.5 — The 18-year-old was involved in and won the most duels in the match, and completed the most dribbles. Maybe not his most masterful day, but he was in the thick of it and no passenger.
**Fermin Lopez (Off 66')**: 7
**Raphinha** (Off 83'): 8 — He wasn’t in game-controller mode but he was clinical when it mattered, much like his older forward line mate.
**Robert Lewandowski (Off 66')**: 7
**Subs**
**Dani Olmo** (On 66'): 6.5
**Fermin Lopez** (On 66'): 6.5
**Marcus Rashford** (On 83'): N/A — Missed a huge chance to seal the game.
**Gerard Martin** (On 83')
**Ronald Araujo** (On 90')
**Real Madrid lineup**
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**Thibaut Courtois**: 6.5 — Made a few saves and was a good player with the ball at his feet.
**Raul Asencio**: 5.5 — Played on the edge of cleanliness and did not otherwise really affect the game.
**Dean Huijsen** (Off 76'): 6.5 — Made his mark at both ends. Should he have done a lot more with Lewandowski on the second goal? Came off through injury.
**Alvaro Carreras**: 4.5 — A lot of people struggle with Lamine Yamal. Carreras did it on a big stage. Fortunate to play on after an ugly stamp on Pedri. Good with the ball, though he didn’t have it often until he hit a tame final shot into Garcia.
**Aurelien Tchouameni**: 6.5 — Hard to fault him for the day as a whole, dropping into the back line after the formation needed reshaping.
**Federico Valverde** (Off 68'): 6 — He’s rarely bad but he’s often
**Eduardo Camavinga**: —
**Rodrygo**: 5.5 — Pretty anonymous day.
**Jude Bellingham**: 5.5 — A few bad giveaways and did very very little in the attacking third.
**Vinicius Junior**: 7.5 — You want to give him a 10 for the dribble on his goal again.
**Gonzalo Garcia** (Off 76'): 7.5 — His first-half stoppage time goal and assist kept the game in the balance.
**Subs**
**Arda Guler** (On 68'):
**David Alaba** (On 76')
**Kylian Mbappe** (On 76')
**Dani Ceballos** (On ’82): N/A
**Franco Masantuono** (On 82'): N/A
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