Three minutes left. Legs burning. Then Jude Bellingham finds a pocket of space and threads a pass of pure skill to Eduardo Camavinga, and the Camp Nou holds its breath. Camavinga sprints clear, slips past Pau Cubarsí and pulls the ball back.

Kylian Mbappé finishes. 2-1 to Real Madrid, and the stadium falls silent. It is the kind of late knockout José Mourinho loves, and it lands thirteen years after he first led a team out of this ground. Mbappé had opened the scoring, Raphinha had levelled for Barcelona, and the match had tipped back and forth like a heavyweight bout.

This was the Frenchman's 10th goal against Barcelona, yet none, by the look of Madrid's players piling into the corner, has felt quite like it. "The world that loves football will have stopped to watch this," Mourinho says, "and they won't have gone disappointed." The damage goes well beyond three points. Barcelona's run of nine league wins, which equalled a record, is over.

It is also the first time they have failed to win any game at home since returning to the Camp Nou a year ago.