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The first classic of the season is played this Sunday at the Santiago Bernabéu.
Real Madrid hosts Barcelona, current leader of the League by goal difference.
Both teams are undefeated, level on points at the top of the standings after adding seven wins and one draw.
Ancelotti's men arrive somewhat more relaxed at the confrontation because they have already certified their pass to the round of 16 in the Champions League, while Xavi's men arrive after another disappointment in the European Cup, where they are a foot and a half out of the competition.
RMAReal Madrid
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Andriy Lunin, Alaba, Dani Carvajal, Ferland Mendy, Eder Militao, Kroos, Aurelien Tchouameni, Modric, Benzema, Federico Valverde and Vinicius Junior
bcn barcelona
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Ter Stegen, Koundé, Eric Garcia, Alex Balde, Sergi Roberto, Pedri, Busquets, Frenkie De Jong, Raphinha, Lewandowski and Ousmane Dembélé
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Referee
Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez
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Lewandowski's first official classic:
13:47
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Official lunch between directives:
13:43
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The adrenaline of Real Madrid:
Real Madrid works like a winning machine that from time to time concedes a defeat —and sometimes a draw as well, as in their last match against Shakhtar— to show that they are also imperfect, an essential condition to guarantee the unpredictability of football, to have the respect of the opponent and increase the legend of king of the Champions.
The heroic humanizes as much as the vulnerability as long as the defeats are partial and therefore corrected and denied by the final triumph as usually happens with Madrid.
He has already won so many European Cups (14) that he is now promoting a tournament by elevation like the Super League, which is not very well known how it will affect everyone's tournament, which is the League.
The opinion of
Ramon Besa,
here:
13:42
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Xavi confuses Xavi:
The crises become more acute when in a switch of points your great adversary goes from summit to summit and in parallel it is almost not enough to reach the base camp.
The abrupt Barça recession in Europe is no longer an economic issue.
To begin with, before the waste of Josep María Bartomeu and the levers of Joan Laporta, Barça lost 220 million in 2017. Neymar left, essential in the last great Barcelona bingo (2015, Xavi's retirement course), and the club squandered the loot.
As much as the grassland left by Figo's fright in 2000. With the box overflowing, the galactic renewals of Messi and allies were perpetuated, an unbearable burden.
The opinion, by
José Sámano,
here:
13:40
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The classic is for Lunin, the shy Real Madrid goalkeeper who doesn't rest:
The Valdebebas curtain was drawn this Saturday and Thibaut Courtois was not on the field.
The sciatica attack hit him hard and this Sunday in the classic (16.15, Dazn) it will be the turn of the opening act, Andriy Lunin (Krasnograd, Ukraine; 23 years old).
Since the Belgian goalkeeper fell into the hospital 13 days ago, Carlo Ancelotti always took it for granted that he would be ready for the big event.
Every time he referred to it, he said that he was getting better.
This Friday, the club reported that he had returned to the pitch (one day late as planned), but on Saturday he was no longer seen in the 15 minutes open to the press.
"He has come out of the problem, but he lacks training," explained the Italian coach.
You can read the full article, by
Lorenzo Calonge,
by clicking
here:
13:37
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The protagonists of the classic:
13:26
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Ter Stegen, yoga, books and barbecues:
"I need to rest".
Marc André Ter Stegen called the German coach, Hansi Flick, and asked him not to call him up last summer to play in the Nations League.
Before, he had already talked about it with his coach, Xavi Hernández: "It will be good for me for a while without competing or having to work on recovering from an injury."
Then, with the approval of his two technicians, Ter Stegen forgot about football.
The German planned a break near Barcelona.
He didn't want big trips or too busy destinations.
With his wife, Dani, and his son, Ben, Ter Stegen visited his family in Germany, toured the south of France and spent a few days at his house in Ibiza.
He practiced yoga, read business and investment books, and barbecued.
The result?
Ter Stegen met Ter Stegen again: "My season is good and the fans notice it".
The complete piece, by
Juan I. Irigoyen,
here:
13:23
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The battle for Vinicius's head in the year that he is fouled the most:
The last classic at the Bernabéu marked last season the point of greatest agitation for Vini Jr. with almost anything on the field that was not the ball.
That night of the 0-4 he lamented a lot to the referee, he argued with Ter Stegen after falling in the area, he hooked up with Piqué a couple of times, and he had Eric García always waiting to leave him the last message.
The center-back did not participate in the play of the fall, but when Vini got up he received a push from behind.
And when Adama and Araujo stole the ball from him and the Brazilian ended up on the ground again, García shouted the phrase of the night: "You, next year, Ballon d'Or."
The full article, by
David Álvarez,
here:
13:16
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Real Madrid - Barcelona: a classic, two states of mind
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The first big shock in the League appears under the October sun, very conditioned by the consequences of the last European session.
While Madrid took advantage of the benefits of their group to quickly close the pass to the round of 16, Barcelona - with much more difficult rivals - was left in a very precarious position, waiting for third-party results that seem unlikely to avoid being eliminated from the Champions League for the second consecutive year before Christmas.
Equal on points in the domestic tournament, the different realities of both teams on the continent therefore condition the first direct crossing of the official course (16.15, Dazn).
The complete preview, by Lorenzo Calonge,
here:
13:12
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Barcelona line-up:
Ter Stegen;
Sergi Roberto, Kounde, Eric Garcia, Balde;
Busquets, Of Jong, Pedri;
Raphinha, Dembelé and Lewandowski.
13:06
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Real Madrid line-up:
Lunin;
Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy;
Tchouameni, Kroos, Modric;
Valverde, Benzema and Vinicius.
13:03
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Welcome to the live of the classic.
Real Madrid and Barcelona meet at the Santiago Bernabéu with the LaLiga leadership at stake.
It will be a pleasure to follow it with you.
13:02
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