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FC Barcelona and Real Madrid will meet this Saturday in a new edition of the Spanish classic, at the Camp Nou Stadium, in search of mend their respective courses amid a poor start to the season.
The “culé” come to this commitment with the mission of lifting in the league, tournament in which they are tenth with seven points, although with two games less than the leader Real Sociedad (11 points).
In fact, they accumulate two matches without winning this tournament, after the empate 1-1 against Sevilla and the defeat on the previous date against Getafe 1-0, although they were able to regain confidence in the middle of the week with the bulky victory over Ferencvaros of Hungary 5-1 in the Champions League.
For this duel they were in doubt Jordi Alba and Antoine Griezmann, due to physical problems, although after the last training session, in which both participated normally, they are expected to start. The one who will continue watching his teammates from the stands will be goalkeeper Marc-André Ter Stegen due to a knee injury.
The training of the Catalans for this duel will be with: Net; Sergiño Dest, Gerard Piqué, Clément Lenglet, Alba; Sergio Busquets, Frenkie De Jong, Philippe Coutinho; Griezmann, Lionel Messi and Ansu Fati.
The current champion of Spain, for his part, arrives at this commitment with many doubts, since although he is one point behind the leader and with one less game in the league, the team suffered two unexpected falls, against Cádiz, recently promoted to the First Division, and in the Champions League against Shakhtar Donetsk, both in local condition at the “Alfredo Di Stefano”.
This situation has questioned coach Zinedine Zidane in Madrid, and there is already talk of Raúl as a possible replacement, if the bad results are maintained and especially if he has a major setback against the “blaugranas”.
The eleventh that Zidane prepared for this duel is: Thibaut Courtois; Nacho Fernández, Raphael Varane, Sergio Ramos, Ferland Mendy; Casemiro, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Federico Valverde; Vinícius Júnior and Karim Benzema.
The last time that both teams met in Catalonia was in December 2019, with a 0-0 draw, while their last match for the Spanish league was last March, with 2-0 victory for the “merengues” against the cast of Arturo Vidal, at that time.
This commitment will be played from 11:00 am (14:00 GMT), with arbitration by Juan Martínez Munuera, and you can follow it with the AlAireLibre.cl Virtual Bookmark.
