Bellingham's negative streak worries Real Madrid for the game vs Barcelona

This Sunday Real Madrid and Barcelona will play the most important match of these first weeks of 2024. They will face each other at the Al-Awwal Park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the final of the Super Cup, the tournament that brings together the best teams of the last season in Spain. This will be the first 'Clasico' of the year, but it will also have an additional importance: for both, it will be the opportunity to win the first title of 2024.

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Carlo Ancelotti's team are the favorites, as they have shown more convincing performances lately and their players are at a very high level. But there is one exception: Jude Bellingham. The English midfielder was a key player during the first half of the season for Los Merengues, as he took over the responsibility of leading the team after Karim Benzema's departure to Al-Ittihad and Vinicius Junior's injuries.

To his talent and intelligence to control the ball, and his physical ability to help defensively, Jude added an unexpected virtue: goals. Despite being a midfielder, his statistics were comparable to those of the best strikers in the world. In fact, he is the top scorer in La Liga this season with 13 goals, surpassing stars like Alvaro Morata, Robert Lewandowski and Antoine Griezmann. And in the Champions League he has netted 4 goals in 6 games in the group stage.

However, those numbers have taken a turn for the worse lately. In his last 7 games for Real Madrid, Bellingham has only scored 2 goals: vs Real Betis on December 9 and against Villarreal on December 17, both in La Liga. Since then he has not been able to do it again, so he has not celebrated for almost a month.

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He wants to repeat what he did at Montjuic.

For Jude Bellingham, this Sunday's final will be a perfect opportunity to get back to his old self. He will try to repeat what he did in his first 'Clasico', played on October 28 at Montjuic, when he scored two goals and led Real Madrid to a key 2-1 victory over Barcelona in the last minute.