Friday, October 25, 2024, 16:38
| Updated 6:03 p.m.
The Santiago Bernabéu will host a very high-profile dispute this Saturday. With a Barça that attends the event full of enthusiasm and a <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/see-live-match-barcelona-vs-real-madrid-free-online-without-ads-spanish-super-cup-spanish-league/" title="See LIVE match Barcelona vs Real Madrid, free, online, without ads, Spanish Super Cup | Spanish League”>Real Madrid determined to show the pride of the champion, the match that paralyzes the planet has all the necessary ingredients to offer a spectacle like it has not been seen in a long time. The whites, led by a stellar Vinicius and a Mbappé who always carries enriched uranium in his boots, aspire to make a splash that will serve as a turning point in a course that has so far been lackluster on their part. The blaugranas, led by a devastating Lewandowski and the irrepressible Lamine Yamal, have the opportunity to give another blow of authority that catapults them, who knows if definitively, into the championship. This lineup of stars resizes a classic that Messi and Cristiano ruled with an iron fist throughout an unforgettable decade.
Thirty confrontations between the two giants of Spanish football saw the genius from Rosario and the star from Madeira face to face. Both marked an era and elevated even more a fight that has no parallel in the world. The departure, first of the Portuguese and then of the Argentine, created a vacuum and the uncertainty surrounding who would collect his legacy and when they would do so. That moment has arrived. A constellation of stars has emerged with the intention of carving out their own legend in the fiercest rivalry the beautiful game has ever known. His presence this Saturday on the pitch guarantees strong emotions.
The locals boast of Vinicius, who with 17 classics behind him in which he has scored seven goals, faces the commitment riding the crest of the wave after the hat-trick he scored against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday and two days of receive the Ballon d’Or that will crown him the best footballer on the planet. Also from Mbappé, a rookie in these matters but who has already left his mark against Barça. On the four occasions in which the culé squad was measured with the PSG shirt, they recorded six goals, including a triplet at the Camp Nou and a double at the Parque de los Príncipes that served to complete two eliminations for the Catalans in the Champions League. .
The visitors boast a rejuvenated Lewandowski, current top scorer of the tournament with twelve goals, five of which were scored in the last two days. The Pole, who terrorized Real Madrid when he belonged to Dortmund and did less damage with Bayern, will try to settle his pending score in the classics. He has played seven and scored two goals. A modest background for a ‘killer’ of his stature.
To the right of the Warsaw striker will be Lamine Yamal, a generational talent who has yet to score or assist against Real Madrid. The winger has fallen in the three classics in which he has participated, but he appears at an optimal moment to leave the past behind. He has four goals and six assists so far in the League and is ahead of Vinicius in several areas. He shoots, dribbles and even receives more fouls than the Fluminense, which shows the enormous impact he has on a squad that flies with the Flick method.
The German coach has resurrected Barça in record time. The team that languished with Xavi Hernández is now a formidable machine that sows destruction in its wake. The blaugranas, who lead the League with a three-point advantage over Real Madrid, have scored twelve more goals than the whites (33 compared to 21) and have also made a dozen more shots on target (74 compared to 62). The suffocating pressure they practice and the forward line they use in defense have helped them subdue almost all the rivals they have faced and they land at the Bernabéu after giving themselves another emotional boost by beating their bete noire.
Sacrifice
The duel with Bayern once again exposed the extremely high level of commitment that the Barça players have with their coach’s postulates. They covered 124.5 kilometers, 5.3 more than Bayern and 21.7 more than the Real Madrid players covered the day before against Dortmund. Although these were two matches with very different profiles, the disparate degree of sacrifice shown to date by the whites and the Catalans plays in favor of a leader who, however, will have to fight against the newspaper archive.
The last four classics fell on the side of Real Madrid, which has gone 40 unbeaten games at the Bernabéu in all competitions and has gone 42 consecutive games without bending the knee in the League, one away from the record that Barça established between the 2016-17 and 2017-18. The whites, who concede less (seven goals compared to ten), execute more passes (6,209 compared to 5,930) and commit fewer fouls (121 compared to 130) than the Blaugranas, recover Brahim but suffer the losses of Courtois, Carvajal, Alaba and Rodrygo against an opponent who especially regrets the absence of Ter Stegen. The main doubts of the eleven are in the center of the field. Ancelotti is torn between keeping Modric or adding more muscle, while Flick hesitates with the third pawn of a core team in which Casadó and Pedri seem untouchable.
-Probable alignments:
Real Madrid: Lunin, Lucas Vazquez, Militao, Rüdiger, Mendy, Chouamen, Valverde, Camavinga, Bellingham, Mbappe and Vinicius.
Barcelona: Iñaki Peña, Koundé, Cubarsí, Iñigo Martínez, Balde, Casadó, Pedri, Fermín, Lamine Yamal, Lewandowski y Raphinha.
Referee: Sánchez Martínez (Murciano Committee).
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu.
TV: Dazn.
