Mbappé scores twice as Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou, ending Barca's league streak

Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou in a La Liga Clasico, with Kylian Mbappé scoring both goals, including the winner three minutes from time. Mbappé opened the scoring, Raphinha equalised for Barcelona, and Mbappé struck again after Jude Bellingham found Eduardo Camavinga, who slipped past Pau Cubarsí and pulled the ball back. The result ended Barcelona's nine-game winning run in the league, their first league failure to win this season. It was also their first game without a win at Camp Nou since returning there a year ago, and a second straight defeat for Hansi Flick's side after a loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League days earlier. Mbappé's brace took him to 14 goals this season and to 100 for Real since he joined from PSG in 2024. It was his 10th goal against Barcelona. Real now lead the all-time Clasico record 107 wins to 106. Barcelona would have broken Real's 1968-69 record for the best start to a Spanish top-flight season with a win. Real coach José Mourinho said the match was between two teams who played to win. France 24 said the title race has tightened.

Left-leaning coverage, here The Guardian, leads with the match narrative: the late move through Bellingham and Camavinga, Mourinho's return to Camp Nou thirteen years on, and his quotes. Alternative outlets Al Jazeera and France 24 also report the 2-1 score and Mbappé's brace, but Al Jazeera adds a takeaways list of statistics, including the 100-goal milestone, the head-to-head record, the 1968-69 benchmark and the Ballon d'Or ceremony the next day. France 24 gives only a brief video summary. Right-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing; only left-leaning and alternative/independent outlets had, and they focus on Mbappé's goals, the end of Barcelona's streak and Real's resurgence under Mourinho. The sources do not contradict each other.