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Barcelona – Real Madrid, El Clásico, live | LaLiga Santander

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E
l Barcelona receive this afternoon at Real Madrid at a junction that opens a new stage in the history of the Classics. LaLiga’s match of maximum rivalry and tension lost in 2018 to Cristiano Ronaldo and now he will be played without what has been his great reference for almost two decades: Leo Messi. But the absence of these cracks does not detract from the suspense, attractiveness and competitiveness of the Camp Nou clash. Both teams have been forced to renew and other figures on the international scene have collected the coveted witnesses of the Portuguese and the Argentine: Ansu Fati and Vinicius.

The Barça of Ronald Koeman he has had to overcome the unexpected loss of Leo Messi. His scoring legend and best and most recognized brand headed to Paris last August and the dressing room has had to reinvent itself. On the offensive line, the coach has been reinforced with the Kun Agüero, Memphis Depay and Luuk de Jong.

The most decisive until the Dutch (four goals) but there is a player who disputes the leadership in attack and the leading role in the team and the entity: Ansu Fati. The young international, already recovered from his knee injury, has scored two goals in the 160 minutes he has played. The heir to Messi’s 10 has taken stripes despite his youth, he is only 18 years old, and is the great hope of the Barcelona of the present and the future.

This past Wednesday he renewed until 2027 and the club put a clause of 1,000 million. Fati will start this afternoon, since Koeman, thinking about the Classic, reserved him in the Champions League against Dynamo Kiev. The youth squad, who already knows what it means to score against the Whites, will form on the offensive line with Memphis Depay and with Coutinho or with Dest. Who will occupy the third point of the trident, everything indicates that he will form in a 1-4-3-3, is the great doubt of Koeman.

He also has them Ancelotti, who arrives less demanded than the Dutch after the thrashing at Shakhtar, which only left good news for Madrid: clean sheet, Champions on track, the trident of the medullary catching cruising speed, Benzema in plan captain general and Friends and Rodrygo more and more curdled.

On the side of the former Santos, the great doubt of Carletto can arrive, who reserved to Faith Valverde in Kiev to give him flight at the Camp Nou, which may imply a new drawing no matter how much the Italian prefers 4-3-3. But the temptation to put fresh legs with the charrúa can justify the change of model. For the rest, no major developments are anticipated despite the returns of Hazard and Carvajal, fresh out of muscular injuries that, in principle, should leave them on the bench at the beginning.

Madrid won the classic of the pandemic in the Camp Nou, but Ancelotti never left Barça’s lair alive. If he succeeds this time, the white club will extend its good streak against the eternal rival, with three wins and a draw in their last four meetings.

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