Hands up, this is a robbery!!(1-3)

Again, football takes over dirty playing. Tonight, justice has been made in the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.

Real Madrid was the first to strike; they needed just 24 seconds (you heard well) to open the can: ball given to Valdés, Benzema and Ronaldo press him, he makes a mindless pass, and gives a present to Di María, Di María gives the ball to Özil, who shoots, but Busquets blocks, the ball is sent to the air, and Benzema catches it with a point blank bazooka-style volley to net in.

Oh, oh... we have some trouble up there...

But the culé would put the draw in minute 30: a classical "all people" slalom by Messi, he loses the ball to Pepe, but the ball is sent forward, Alexis catches it, runs as fast as he can to the merengue area, and, being annoyed by Ramos and Carvalho, he decides to try a low whip crack, enough powerful to end netted in from almost outside the area.

Now in the second half, Messi toyed around with destiny by unsuccesfully trying to stop Xabi Alonso, a try that only ended in a horrorful tackle from Messi, knowing that he already had a yellow card. Miraculously, he wasn't sent off. Phew....

Barça would strike again in order to make the 1-2, a goal that can be desribed as "such a fool and a luck of a goal": a ball is sent into the air after Alexis tried to strike again, Xavi tries a volley, and instead obtains a blunder, a blunder that crashes against Marcelo's legs and is refracted, catching Casillas off-guard and almost completely gone to the right side, to which the merengue goalkeeper couldn't reach the ball in time before it crashed in the post and went in.

Football isn't only ability, ladies and gentlemen...

Barça would put the definitive 1-3 with Real Madrid style: netting in a textbook counterattack: Piqué manages to tackle off Ronaldo, gives the ball to Xavi, then Xavi runs as much as he is able to, before giving the ball to Iniesta, who in turn givs it to Cesc. Cesc then gives the ball to Messi, who, in turn, gives it to Alves; Alves runs as much as he is able to and then centers, and, out of nowhere, Cesc appears, having won the position against Fábio Coentrão, and heads the ball in. OMG, this is a goal to remember...

Having won one of the most important matches of the season, Barça then travels to Japan in order to play the FIFA Club World Cup. The culés first rival will come from the match between the African Champions League (CAF) champion (Ésperance Sportive de Tunis) and the Asian Champions League (AFC) champion (Al-Sadd Sports Club).

Well, that's all for now folks, see ya after the FIFA Club World Cup final!!