La Liga: Raphinha’s Brace Overshadows Kylian Mbappe’s Hat-Trick As Barcelona Beat Real Madrid 4-3

Barcelona set up a spectacular return to beat Real Madrid 4-3 on Sunday and move to the edge of the Liga title. Kylian Mbappe scored a triplet for LOS blancos, but the goals and goals of Raphinha from Lamine Yamal, Eric Garcia and Fermin Lopez gave Barcelona a seven -point lead on the Madrid reign champions with three games to play. The Hansi Flick team was eliminated from the Champions League in the semi-finals by Inter Milan on Tuesday and risked their season to collapse if they were beaten by Madrid, but they resisted the early mbappe splint.

Barcelona retaliated to win a fourth victory from Clasico in four meetings this season, showing their domination over the team of Carlo Ancelotti.

Real Madrid had taken the perfect start of what should be the last classico of the Italian coach at the helm.

Mbappe obtained a penalty when he was criticized by the Barcelona goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, although the Catalans complain in the vein that the French striker was offside in construction.

The striker beat Szczesny, who plunged in the right direction and made his fingers, but could not keep him away.

In the 14th minute, Mbappe doubled the advantage of Madrid with a fatal finish after Vinicius Junior played him, Barcelona complaining again of a perceived fault on Yamal earlier in the movement.

It was his 26th Liga strike, passing him ahead of Robert Lewandowski in Barcelona on 25 at the top of the score charts, and his 38th of the season in all competitions, broke the record of the club of Ivan Zamorano of 37 in a first season with Los Bancos.

Just as they have done many times this season, the young animated Flick Flick fought back with a moving return.

Thibaut Courtois tipped the journey of Gerard Martin, and from the corner, Eric Garcia returned home Ferran Torres.

Torres has largely turned to close range with an improvised effort and Fede Valverde was reserved for a crisis tackle on the adolescent Whirlwind Yamal.

Madrid could not prevent the 17 year old star from leveling with a culture bending effort beyond courteous after Torres placed the ball in the box.

Spaphinha

Two minutes later, Raphinha sent Barça forward, with Pedri passing a pass so that the Brazilian winger drone at home.

Raphinha was heading for a brilliant Yamal cross with the outside of his boot, a kind of brand for the Spanish international.

Mbappe thought he had won another penalty when he fell under pressure from Frenkie de Jong, but Var revealed an offside in the accumulation.

A few moments later, Raphinha marked her second, choosing the pocket of Lucas Vazquez on the edge of the area, exchanging passes with torres and beating courteous.

Mbappe scored from an offside position before the break, carrying a first half of the roller coaster.

Yamal excluded a goal for offside at the start of the second half while Barcelona sought to put their arc rivals to the sword.

Flick brought Alejandro Balde and Andreas Christensen, the latter cutting a dangerous ball while Vinicius was looking for Mbappe.

The next time the Brazilian found his man, with Mbappe at the house of his hat -trick while he and Vinicius collapsed behind the upper line of Barça.

Barcelona called for a penalty when Aurelien Tchouamed blocked the shot of Torres with his arm, but after looking at the incident again, the referee decided not to grant a penalty.

The replacement for Real Madrid Victor Munoz may have accumulated late but fired loud and wide when sent, and Szczesny denied Mbappe, who had another strike for offside.

Barcelona thought that they had finished their victory with a superb solo effort by Fermin Lopez, but it was hard for the handball against the midfielder.

Madrid has no time to fight back, and Barcelona, ​​who won the League for the last time in 2023, could seal the title on Wednesday, if Los Blancos stumbled against Mallorca.

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