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The appearance of the “Camp Nou” stadium will be strange today, Saturday, as it embraces the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid in the Spanish Classic without the presence of fans in the first Classic that brings together the two great Spanish poles in the Corona era.
Barcelona will face Real Madrid at the Camp Nou at four in the afternoon Cairo time on the seventh day of the Spanish League, and it will be the first match in the history of the Classic, which is played without an audience due to the pandemic of the Corona virus.
Barcelona is ninth in the La Liga club ranking with seven points, losing on the last day of Getafe.
While Real Madrid are in third place with 10 points and lost in their last La Liga game to Cádiz, then they lost to Ukraine’s Shakhtar in the Champions League, so Barcelona sought to win and inflict the third consecutive defeat. of Real Madrid.
In terms of numbers, the two teams met in the Spanish League in 180 previous matches, Real won in 73 and Barcelona won in 72, while the tie was present in 35 games.
Barcelona did not score in the last two La Liga Classic matches, and not registering in today’s match will mean that they will break a negative record that has survived for over 60 years, the last time Barcelona failed to score in 3 matches consecutive La Liga Clásico between March 1957 and February 1958.
Barcelona has scored 399 goals against Real Madrid in El Clásico matches in all competitions and has the chance to score 400.
That first game of Barça coach Ronald Koeman in El Clásico against Real, where Koeman fought when he was a player in Barcelona’s Clásico 14 against Real Madrid, winning 6 of them, tied at 3 and lost at 5.
Real Madrid could not win the first La Liga Clásico during the football season since the 2014-2015 season, when they beat Santiago Bernabéu 3-1 at Barcelona, and have the opportunity to break that negative chain in the match of Saturday.
Real Madrid managed to keep a clean sheet in two consecutive matches at El Clásico.
Zinedine Zidane, Real Madrid coach, as a player, visited the Camp Nou 5 times, all with Real Madrid, winning and drawing in two games and defeated in only one, scoring two goals in the Blaugrana stronghold throughout his career.
A negative number for Real Madrid, as they have not won two consecutive La Liga Clásico games since 2008 and have a chance in today’s game.
Sergi Ramos, Real Madrid defender, is the one who participates the most in El Clásico with 44 games, and Lionel Messi is one game away from him.
Lionel Messi is El Clásico’s top scorer with 26 goals in all competitions.
