[ad_1]
Saturday, October 24, 2020
More crisis was rare before the Classic in recent decades: FC Barcelona is in a painful turmoil, Real Madrid in a crisis. Afterwards, Real Madrid can breathe easy. Barça superstar Lionel Messi is having a bad afternoon.
Real Madrid has won the Clásico 181 in the Spanish First Division. The recently ill Real team won 3-1 (1-1) at FC Barcelona on Saturday and celebrated their 74th victory in the 245th match of the top two Spanish teams. Real and especially coach Zinedine Zidane can take a deep breath.
After two bad defeats at home in the League (0: 1 against the newly promoted Cádiz) and the Champions League (2: 3 after 0: 3 against Shakhtar Donetsk), the Spanish media had already scored, the Real is in a “dynamic that Zidane in the end will let himself go. ” The coach himself had been optimistic: these were “difficult times,” Zidane said, but the game provided the “perfect setting” to reverse the trend and his players could show their true “quality. And the former world-class player was right.
The El Clásico got off to a turbulent start: Fede Valverde put Madrid in the lead with German international Toni Kroos in the lead in the 5th minute, but Ansu Fati drew quickly (8th). The youngest scorer in the history of the Classic was, together with Pedri, the second 17-year-old in the Barça starting lineup. Sergio Ramos (63rd) made the preliminary decision with a penalty. Real then lost other opportunities, including through Kroos (85th). After an error by the Barça goalkeeper Neto, who replaced the German national goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who had not yet recovered from his knee surgery, Luka Modric (90 + 2) made the second consecutive victory for Real Madrid in the Classic.
Barca superstar Lionel Messi seemed frustrated even before the decision was made. The Argentine, who didn’t really want to play for his club long-term this season, couldn’t put his stamp on the game. The “monster of the mentality” of Madrid, Ramos, Messi’s “beloved” rival in many Classics, was the one who took the decisive penalty. In the League, Real now leads the table with 13 points. Barcelona is tenth with seven points, but has played one game less. The big club has not won any of the last three league games.
