FC Barcelona and Lamine Yamal once again portrayed Real Madrid and the entire 'cave' in the final of the Supercopa de España (2-5). The 'five-goal' performance by Hansi Flick's team in Arabia confirmed a dominance that can be much more humiliating than that of the Guardiola era in the Clásico, with the second consecutive thrashing of Barça in just 77 days. Amid the euphoria of the culés, Lamine's figure is, today, the new 'merengue' nightmare.
And it is that, just as Ronaldinho Gaúcho and Leo Messi did in their time, the one from Mataró, at just 17 years old, already exercises a notable fatherhood over the millions of the Madrid squad. Especially over their offensive trident, the so-called 'BMV'. A couple of decades ago, the '10' Brazilian ended the 'Galactic era' of Florentino Pérez, who had no choice but to resign in March 2006 when Barça was on its way to winning its second consecutive League and the Champions in Paris.
'Ronnie' nullified the trident formed by Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo Nazario, and David Beckham, all three signed between 2001 and 2003, when the whites were splurging money by signing a world star every summer. Pérez returned in 2009 to face Pep Guardiola's Barça and, in 2013, completed the 'BBC' with the signing of Gareth Bale. The Welshman, along with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, was meant to form an epoch-making attack, but Leo Messi crossed their path to give Barça four League titles in the eight seasons that the whites had their three 'rockets' in attack.
The stunning goals of Lamine Yamal, a 'habit' in the Clásicos
This season, Madrid completed a new 'galactic' trident with the long-awaited signing of Kylian Mbappé, who after three years of continuous snubs finally listened to Florentino's 'cries'. The Frenchman completed the so-called 'BMV' alongside Jude Bellingham and Vinicius Jr. However, in the two Clásicos in which the shiny white forward line has faced Barça this season, Lamine Yamal has led Barça's devastating attack alongside Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha to humiliate the 'merengues' with two historic thrashings.
Not in vain, the stunning goals of the '19' are already becoming a habit in Barça-Madrid matches. In October, the youth player silenced the Santiago Bernabéu with an unstoppable right-footed shot that broke the net against Courtois to make it 0-3 in the 77th minute. In the Supercopa, the winger did the same with a true work of art; a 'Messianic' finish that sparked the Barça comeback when barely 22 minutes had passed. No matter how many millions Madrid spends, a world 'crack' always emerges in Barça to set things right. As the saying goes: those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.