It has felt inevitable for some time, but Sunday night’s defeat to Barcelona confirmed that Real Madrid will end the 2025–26 season without a trophy. Barcelona strolled to a 2–0 victory in the first Clásico at Camp Nou in three years, thus giving the Catalans an unassailable lead at the top of La Liga . While the outcome may have seemed predetermined, the match itself will, nevertheless, have been a source of pain and frustration to many Madridistas given that their team failed to stick a fly in the punch bowl at Barcelona’s coronation party . However, at this stage of a dismal season, some fans may simply be numb to it all. Marcus Rashford opened the scoring with a superb free kick before the ten-minute mark, while Ferran Torres’s smashed finish, after running on to Dani Olmo’s flicked assist, doubled the hosts’ lead on 18 minutes.…