The game descended into a 1980s-style Clasico for most of the rest of the first half, with both teams deciding to just kick lumps out of one another for the hell of it.Įl Clasico finally became a football match again in added time at the end of the half.

Rodrygo stormed down the right flank and drilled a lovely low ball across goal and seemingly right into the path of Vinicius, but Ronald Araujo was on hand to side in just before Vini could connect with the ball to stop what would've beena a certain goal.

Balde's keenness to get forward did however create some space for Madrid in behind - space which they almost exploited in the 12th minute. Los Blancos booked their place in the final alongside Osasuna on Wednesday evening, coming from 1-0 down on aggregate thanks to goals from Benzema and Vinicius Juniorīarcelona were the much, much better team in the opening exchanges, with Alejandro Balde causing the Real defence a huge amount of problems.

Karim Benzema inspired a famous 4-0 win for Real Madrid ove Barcelona at Camp Nou to secure his team's place in this season's Copa del Rey final.

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