REAL MADRID’S SQUAD LIST: Goalkeepers: Courtois, Areola and Toni Fuidias. Defenders: Carvajal, Militão, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo and Mendy. Midfielders: Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, Valverde and Isco. Attackers: Benzema, Bale, Lucas Vázquez, Mariano and Vinicius Jr. Zidane has included Mariano Diaz in the list. Mariano is replacing Luka Jovic, who is available but hasn’t made the squad for the game. James will not be with the team either. Venue: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain. Available TV: BeIN Sports (USA), Movistar La Liga (Spain) Available Streaming: BeIN Sports Connect (USA), Fubo.TV (USA). Mateu Lahoz has been appointed as the referee. Jordi Alba has returned to training this week after injury, but rushing him back for the weekend to start at left-back is a risk. Antoine Griezmann and Lionel Messi are expected to start in attack, with Ansu Fati likely to be asked to make an impact from the bench. Quique Setien is expected to pack the midfield rather than going with a front three that includes new signing Martin Braithwaite. Despite picking up a foot injury against Napoli in midweek, Gerard Pique has trained and will be available on Sunday. Expected lineup Barça: Ter Stegan, Semedo, Pique, Lenglet, Firpo FdJ, Busquets, Arthur, Vidal Griezmann, Messi Madrid TC Carvajal, Varane, Ramos, Mendy Fede, Casemiro, Modric/Kroos, Marcelo Isco, Benzema In 21 Clasico appearances, Benzema netted six times and hasn't scored against Barcelona since the 2015/16 campaign. [Marca] MARCA: LaLiga to be decided at the Bernabeu. RM can be leaders or Barca go 5pts ahead. Kroos returns. Vinicius again. Pique & Alba recovered & will start.AS: Zidane summons the Bernabeu! "We need the fans from 1st to 90th minute". Barca arrive with a 2pts advantage. #ElClasico pic.twitter.com/WDNJhGP2TA— M•A•J (@Ultra_Suristic) February 29, 2020 iHala Madrid!
[emoji2788] — Courtois (Real Madrid): "For me, Messi is like any other player we study as if we were studying a player from Celta Vigo or Levante. There is no difference. .@ferland_mendy: "El Clasico is like no other game out there, we all want to win this game. I had played at the Camp Nou prior to that game, with Lyon, but wearing the shirt of Real Madrid everything is different." #ElClásico pic.twitter.com/If8rvanSPH— Infinite Madrid (@InfiniteMadrid) February 29, 2020 Messi: no goal in 336 Clasico minutes
Wish Zidane would go with my lineup in the News thread; 442 - Benzema, Mariano, Vinicius, Casemiro, Kroos, Valverde. However knowing how rigged and safe Zidane plays things he us going with the impotent Benzema, Isco with Vinicius. Just hope he doesn't wait too long to sub and this time he actually gives our backup striker a chance instead of sinking with Benzema.
if we lose this match then zidane may not be for next season and winning may give us some momentum in the league and also for 2nd leg for Mancity match however chance look very slim, i am happy winning this just 1.0 - - is Jovic injured or not fit?
let go like this ----------------Benzema---------------, Vinicius-----Kross--------- Bale(Mariano) ---Casemiro------Valverde------ Mendy. Ramos, Varane, Militão, ------------Courtois------------- i prefer mariano for bale - we can switch role with benzema during counter attach
Carvajal( meh) Ramos Varane Mendy .......Fede Casemiro Kroos .................Modric ........Mariano Vinicius.
11 last La Liga El Clasicos at the Bernabeu... Barca won 8. Usually I'm very optimistic but today I'm not. Pretty much 2 lineups that Zidane is likely to start and I don't like either one. 1. Vini-Benz-Bale 2. 4-4-2 with Vini/Bale and Benz.
The team have got themselves into this shit and need to really take off tonight and kick start the season again. Nothing less than a win will do, for morale more than anything else.
No way Zidane is fielding trident today. We are fielding the same line-up as vs. City with one exception Kroos instead of Modrić.
This is the data which tbh I'm scared of. In recent years Barca is playing better on Bernabeu which this data clearly shows. That's why I don't feel like this is really a home court advantage for the players. On the contrary it feels like if Barca go one up, Real's players succumb to the pressure and the whistles from the home crowd which make things even worse. There is no winner mentality left at this club and even Zidane can't help with this. E.g. when City equalized on Wednesday, the players just let City do whatever they wanted. It could have been even worse than 1-2. I also just can't be optimistic about this match looking at this statistic and knowing how we've played in previous matches this week. Just can't. I think that we're very form-based team. If we had gotten a better result against city, we would be able to compete now against Barca. But the attackers just lack the confidence to be able to hurt them. You just have to be clinical against Barca. That wasn't the case in these 8/11 clasicos when we were on the receiving end on multiple occassion. And I doubt that this trend will change tonight.
The season can officially end today.......i dont believe in miracles,the team is dead,Zidane has no idea what he is doing ,he destroyed us in the past month 0-2 or 0-3 the worst result for me is a draw- it will still give (false) hope for the league and at the same time it still will feel like the season is done and we already fecked it up