FC Barcelona announces its squad for La Liga El Clásico against Real Madrid



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Barcelona’s next game is coming! the Blaugrana back in action for the biggest game of the season so far, the first The classic from 2020-21 against Real Madrid at the Camp Nou, and Ronald Koeman has called up the following 23 players for Saturday’s game:


Goalkeepers: 13. Neto, 26. Iñaki Peña, 36. Arnau Tenas

Defenders: 2. Sergines Dest, 3. Gerard Piqué, 4. Ronald Araujo, 15. Clément Lenglet, 18. Jordi Alba, 20. Sergi Roberto, 24. Junior Firpo

Midfielders: 5. Sergio Busquets, 6. Carlos Aleñá, 8. Miralem Pjanic, 12. Riqui Puig, 14. Philippe Coutinho, 16. Pedri, 21. Frenkie De Jong

Forward: 7. Antoine Griezmann, 9. Martin Braithwaite, 10. Lionel Messi, 11. Ousmane Dembélé, 17. Francisco Trincão, 22. Ansu Fati


There’s good injury news for Barça ahead of this one: Jordi Alba is back after missing the last three weeks with a hamstring injury, and the full-back is expected to return to the starting lineup as well. Ter Stegen (knee), Samuel Umtiti (knee) and Matheus Fernandes (hamstring) will be lost due to injury, and the 23 players on the roster will be in uniform and available for selection.

Scheduled starting eleventh (4-2-3-1):

Net; Roberto, Piqué, Lenglet, Alba; Busquets, De Jong; Griezmann, Coutinho, Fati; Messi


The match starts at 4pm CET (Barcelona), 3pm BST / WAT (UK and Nigeria), 10am ET, 7am PT (US), 7:30pm IST (India), and you can join to us to follow and comment on all the action.

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