The eyes of the soccer world zero in on the Santiago Bernabéu for the primary assembly of the season between Barcelona and Actual Madrid.
El Clásico is without doubt one of the greatest rivalries within the sport and all of the substances are there to make this version a firecracker of a soccer match.
Barcelona arrives to Madrid on a excessive. Hansi Flick’s males are coming of one among Barcelona’s greatest performances in years within the UEFA Champions League after profitable 4–1 over Bayern Munich. The crew regarded dominant to begin the season and now it is also getting more healthy.
Frenkie De Jong, Dani Olmo, Fermin López and Gavi all returned to motion for the Blaugranas within the final month. Along with his midfield gamers now all prepared for choice, Flick should resolve who makes it into an already stacked XI.
Barcelona enters the house of its greatest rivals with a transparent goal in thoughts: Ending Los Blancos’ 4 recreation profitable streak in EL Clásico. Search for Flick to stay with an identical lineup to the one which dominated midweek within the Champions League.
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GK: Iñaki Peña—Though Wojciech Szczésny was signed within the aftermath of Marc-André ter Stegen’s harm, Peña has remained as Barça’s beginning goalkeeper and would not appear doubtless to surrender the beginning function any time quickly.
LB: Alejandro Baldé—It will likely be fascinating to see who Carlo Ancelotti makes use of instead of the injured Rodrygo. In any case, Baldé will look to push ahead and check the resolve of Lucas Vázquez who was shaky defensively in opposition to Borussia Dortmund.
CB: Pau Cubarsí—{The teenager} continues the marvelous begin to his profession anchoring Barcelona’s protection.
CB: Iñigo Martínez—Each Martinez and Cubarsí must be nicely organized to deal with Kylian Mbappé and Jude Bellingham.
RB: Jules Koundé—Koundé will probably be charged with defending maybe essentially the most harmful space of Actual Madrid’s assault. Vinícius Junior is coming off a hat-trick within the UCL and Mbappé is understood to additionally favor to begin his runs from the left-wing.
CM: Marc Casadó—One among Europe’s greatest breakout gamers of the season. With all of the accidents in Barcelona’s midfield to begin the Flick period, Casadó has are available and accomplished brilliantly.
CM: Pedri—Pedri was nice in opposition to Bayern Munich, dictating the tempo of the sport. Barcelona’s recreation runs by way of the 21-year-old who’s taking part in in a deeper function this season given the midfield accidents.
LW: Raphinha—The person of the match vs. Bayern Munich after scoring a hat-trick. Raphinha is within the type of his life.
AM: Dani Olmo—The massive summer season signing returned to motion in opposition to Bayern Munich and after a month off may see his return to the Catalans beginning XI. He is scored in all three video games began for Barcelona in La Liga.
RW: Lamine Yamal—September’s Participant of the Month in La Liga hopes that the third Clásico in his younger profession would be the one the place he scores for the primary time.
ST: Robert Lewandowski—Beneath Flick, Lewandowski appears to have discovered the fountain of youth. His 12 targets in La Liga have already got him six clear atop the race for the Golden Boot. He is scored eight targets within the crew’s final 4 video games in all competitions.