The highly-anticipated El Clasico takes place at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium this Saturday evening as Real Madrid host Barcelona in the 230th competitive meeting between these world footballing giants.
Barcelona have the opportunity to move six points clear of their biggest rivals with victory in their stadium this weekend. Against a Real Madrid side who are under-performing this season.
Rafa Benítez’s defensive tactics have not gone down well with many of the fans, nor some of the players, according to reports. Held 0-0 by Sporting Gijón in their opening game of the season and 0-0 at home to lowly Málaga at the end of September has started to build pressure on the manager who was only hired over the summer.