Barcelona vs Real Madrid 1-2 - All Goals & Highlights - 2023

Is there a better player in world football right now than Jude Bellingham? For the first hour of Saturday's Clasico, you might have thought so.

Barcelona had everything under control at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys. This might only be their temporary home while Camp Nou redevelopment work continues, but there was something very familiar about all this: Barca, in red and blue, La Masia graduates at the heart of the team, a club legend in the dugout, the players effective with the ball and frenetic without it. And winning.

Then, Bellingham happened. Two goals — one a thunderbolt from outside the box, the other a poacher's finish from the middle of it — turned the match on its head and silenced the home supporters. Real Madrid, from nowhere, had won 2-1; Bellingham, forgotten for 60 minutes, had made this all about him.