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The Frenchman Jules Koundé achieved in the absence of four minutes to conclude the extension on 3-2 for Barcelona that gives the Barca team its thirtieth second title of champion of the Copa del Rey, after a final against Real Madrid worthy of a height classic.
The Barcelona players were much superior in the first half, in which they advanced with a goal from the Pedri, but in the second Real Madrid reacted with the departure of Mbappé and turned the scoreboard to become an open and disputed match that was not resolved until the post -term of the extension.
The presence of Dani Olmo as midfielda was the main novelty in the eleven of German Hansi Flick, who arrived in Seville with significant casualties such as his Polish scorer Robert Lewandowski or the side of the side Alejandro Balde and with the presence on the bench after a long injury of the German goal Marc-André Ter Stegen.
Ferran Torres replaced Lewandowski, while on the left side was Gerard Martín, he took the bucket post. With them they found a Real Madrid Mermado, in which the Italian Carlo Ancelotti did not have, in addition to the acquaintances Dani Carvajal and Éder Militao, to Eduardo Camavinga.
But, with Kylian Mbappé on the bench still with an ankle problems, Ferland Mendy, who returned after injury to cover the incursions of Lamine Yamal, only endured ten minutes and left again with a muscular ailment that forced Fran García to go out.
Before and after the injury, Barça’s pressure was atosigant, so that Real Madrid only had to be expected to take the opponent in some and surprise him with the speed of Vinícius or Rodrygo, but it was Courtois who was very attentive to a header of Koundé.
The Belgian, a few minutes later, on the edge of half an hour, could not with a Pedri Zapatazo from afar, and the ball slipped near the squad to put what was expected from the start, the goal of the Catalans.
It seemed that Flick’s team raised something from the accelerator to take a breath and that of Ancelotti was used to approach the area of the Polish goal Wojciech Szczesny, but without continuity and without finding connections between Dani Ceballos with Bellingham or with Brazilians.
In the 35th minute he was annulled in English out of the game, then Dani Olmo tried an Olympic goal but the ball finally repelled the stick and, already in the extension, with an intense game and of great physical deployment, the referee pointed out a penalty about wine but it was shown since the play was preceded by offside.
Mbappé was the resource of Madrid for the second part and the sacrificed Rodrygo, but it was Vinícius who soon had the best of his team so far, in a double auction in which the Polish goal was very attentive in both attempts.
Szczesny then turned to the protagonist when covering the French striker a shot and then being very good for reflections against Vinícius in which, now, the match was of Madrid control before a rival who went through bad times.
With Modric and Arda Gúler also in the countryside, Real Madrid was another, intense, with physical deployment and with a pressure that took Barcelona, which made Flick react with the entrance of Fermín López by Dani Olmo to recover some air in the center of the field.
But by then those of Ancelotti were already unleashed and the Mbappé revulsion balanced the score by launching from the area edge a foul that Frenkie de Jong did to him and that the Madrid players claimed as a red card deserving when cutting a clear action of danger.
It did not take long, at 77 minutes of turning the scoreboard with the header of the Frenchman Aurélien Tchouaméni at the exit of a corner, but the white joy lasted seven minutes, until Ferran Torres took advanced to Courtais and beat him.
There was time for more shocks, because in the sixth minute of extension a penalty of Asencio to Raphinha was planted, although Ricardo de Burgos Bengoechea went to VAR, rectified his decision and also took a yellow from the Brazilian, so that the party went to the extension.
Madrid seemed somewhat more whole in this added time, even Barcelonista Pedri left and Eric García replaced it to balance forces that were at the limit on both sides, which was derived from taking care not to make mistakes that could be definitive, although Koundé was the smartest already lacking four minutes for the end achieved the final 3-2.
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