{"id":81464,"date":"2026-01-12T05:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81464"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:31:15","slug":"barcelona-edge-real-madrid-3-2-to-win-spanish-super-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/12\/barcelona-edge-real-madrid-3-2-to-win-spanish-super-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Edge Real Madrid 3-2 to Win Spanish Super Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 3-2 in a thrilling El Cl\u00e1sico final on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to lift the Spanish Super Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Raphinha starred for Bar\u00e7a, scoring twice, while Robert Lewandowski added another to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona took the lead in the 36th minute through Raphinha, but Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior equalised for Madrid in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski restored Bar\u00e7a\u2019s advantage, only for Gonzalo Garc\u00eda to make it 2\u20132 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>The decisive goal came in the 73rd minute when Raphinha netted his second, putting Barcelona ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Despite late pressure and a red card for Frenkie de Jong, Barcelona held on to claim their first trophy of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The win boosts Barcelona\u2019s confidence and extends their edge over Real Madrid in recent finals, leaving Los Blancos to rue defensive lapses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 3-2 in a thrilling El Cl\u00e1sico final on Sunday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to lift the Spanish Super Cup. Raphinha starred for Bar\u00e7a, scoring twice, while Robert Lewandowski added another to secure the win. Barcelona took the lead in the 36th minute through Raphinha, but Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior equalised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81467,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81464\/revisions\/81467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}