Barcelona vs Real Madrid LIVE: El Clasico result and final score after Jude Bellingham’s winner
Barcelona 1-2 Real Madrid: Jude Bellingham’s double in first Clasico secures dramatic comeback win for visitors
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Barcelona lost to Real Madrid in the first Clasico of the season as Jude Bellingham delivered more brilliance with two second-half goals to win the game.
Barcelona won last season’s La Liga crown as they surged to their first league title since 2019 under Xavi. The champions were undefeated this season with seven wins and three draws, but this defeat leaves them trailing leaders Real Madrid by four points.
Madrid’s new signing Bellingham has made an astonishing start to life in the Spanish capital with 13 goals in his first 13 games for the club since arriving from Borussia Dortmund in the summer. The 20-year-old England star took centre stage in El Clasico, as Real Madrid laid down a marker in the race to win La Liga.
Follow the latest reaction from El Clasico below.
Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid
80 mins: Gavi, now, with a curling effort which just goes over the bar from the right edge of the box. The home side starting to grow back into the game as we enter the final ten minutes.
Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid
79 mins: Camavinga falls to the deck as he tries to get past Araujo. The referee is having none of it and on we play.
Barca counter up the other end as Lewandowski fires over from the edge of the box.
Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid
76 mins: Xavi looks to wrestle back momentum with a couple of changes. Cancelo and Joao Felix head to the bench with Yamal and the returning Raphinha coming on.
Yamal becomes the youngest player to play in a Clasico.
Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid
75 mins: Barca have been under pressure for much of this second half, but they are now really struggling after that goal from Bellingham.
Another chance here for Madrid from a free-kick as Alaba, Valverde and Modric stand over the ball. It’s Valverde who strikes it but it’s blocked by the Barca wall.
Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid
72 mins: A change in the Barca midfield after that goal as Romeu replaces Fermin.
GOAL! Barcelona 1-1 Real Madrid (Bellingham, 69 mins)
It just had to be him!
Real Madrid have their equaliser and it’s their English superstar Jude Bellingham with the goal. Tchouameni’s long-range effort was saved by Ter Stegen moments earlier but there is no saving that from Bellingham as his right-footed effort flies into the top corner.
He’s had a quiet game but, out of nowhere, the 20-year-old has yet another goal for Real and his first in El Clasico.
Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid
67 mins: SAVE! What a strike that is from Tchouameni. Shades of his goal for France against England in the World Cup as his long-range effort rises off the turf and heads towards the target. Ter Stegen, though, is equal to it, and palms it away.
Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid
65 mins: A concerned look on Kepa’s face as Cancelo’s deflected strike loops over his head. Thankfully for the Spaniard, the effort drifts just wide of the post as Madrid deal with the resulting corner.
Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid
63 mins: Madrid respond with two changes of their own. Modric and Joselu have been warming up for a while and finally come on, with Kroos and Rodrygo making way.
Barcelona 1-0 Real Madrid
61 mins: Big cheers from the stands as Ferran Torres makes way for the returning Lewandowski who has missed the last three games through injury.
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