By the end Barcelona just wanted to get out of there and go home, any hope, which had been small enough anyway, long since having left them. Real Madrid would have happily stayed a little longer: first to keep playing, which they did so well, and then to celebrate a success that suggests there will be more to come, delivered via a total destruction of their greatest rivals.
A first-half hat-trick from Vinícius Júnior, two of those scored inside the opening 10 minutes, helped them ease – and ease really does feel like the right word – to a 4-1 victory and the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia.
