Antoine Griezmann will start the Clasico against Real Madrid counting for the 30th day of Liga on the bench of FC Barcelona on Saturday evening (9:00 p.m.), and it is his compatriot Ousmane Dembélé who will accompany Lionel Messi on the front of the attack.
Ronald Koeman decided to start with a system with three central defenders, including Oscar Mingueza, Ronald Araujo and Frenchman Clément Lenglet.
Gerard Pique, returned from a knee injury in time to compete in the clasico, will start the meeting on the bench.
Barça will therefore play in 3-5-2, with Frenkie de Jong, Sergio Busquets, Pedri in the middle of the field, and Sergino Dest and Jordi Alba on the wings.
Messi will start well with Dembélé to play his 45th clasico and thus equal the record of appearances of captain Merengue Sergio Ramos, currently injured.
Zinédine Zidane, for his part, has not made any major upheavals: Real Madrid will start in a classic composition, with a defensive hinge made up of Nacho and Eder Militao in the absence of Ramos and Raphaël Varane (touched by the Covid-19), the one who had already managed to control Liverpool during the 3-1 success in the Champions League quarter-final first leg on Tuesday.
The Uruguayan Fede Valverde regains a starting place in the eleven merengue.
He could join the indebted trio Luka Modric - Casemiro - Toni Kroos in the middle of the field in a 4-4-2, or act as right winger in the company, on the left, of the young Brazilian Vinicius (20 years), flamboyant Tuesday in the Champions League with a brace against Liverpool, and Karim Benzema, in a 4-4-3.
Eleven from Real Madrid:
Courtois - Vazquez, Militao, Nacho, Mendy - Casemiro, Valverde, Modric, Kroos - Vinicius, Benzema.
Eleven of FC Barcelona:
Ter Stegen - Mingueza, Araujo, Lenglet - Dest, De Jong, Busquets, Pedri, Alba - Messi, Dembélé.
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