Preview for Barcelona v Actual Madrid
Barcelona followers bought to share the distress of their Actual Madrid counterparts this week following their exit from the Champions League.
Barca were beaten over two legs by Inter Milan and left raging at what they perceived to be a string of poor decisions from referee Szymon Marciniak. Having held the morale excessive floor as a consequence of Madrid’s conduct previous to and following the recent Copa del Rey final between the sides, it was attention-grabbing to see Barca behave in precisely the identical manner after their elimination to Inter.
The behaviour of each golf equipment in current weeks has finished little to change the sensation that there’s a sense of entitlement from Spain’s massive two that’s fairly unedifying.
However, the battle for the Liga title stays a two-horse race, though it may very well be diminished to at least one if Barca can safe a fourth win over their Clasico rivals this season.
Hansi Flick’s side won the reverse fixture 4-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu and adopted that up with victories within the Spanish Super Cup and the Copa remaining.
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They head into this fixture with a four-point lead on the summit with simply 4 video games to play. A win and the league is all however finished and a draw would make them overwhelming favourites.
For Madrid, although, the weekend presents an unlimited alternative. If they’ll trim the hole to some extent then it’s very a lot recreation on.
Many of the focus within the build-up has centred round subsequent season and the way forward for coach Carlo Ancelotti. Xabi Alonso’s announcement earlier right now that he’ll go away Bayer Leverkusen on the finish of the season appears the primary domino to fall with the rest seeing Ancelotti stand down after which take up the position of Brazil nationwide crew coach.
The one uncertainty is when this occurs. The sensible cash is previous to the Membership World Cup in June with the Brazilian Soccer Federation keen to put in Ancelotti as quickly as potential to provide him most time with the crew previous to subsequent summer time’s World Cup.
And whereas it hasn’t been an important season for Madrid, therefore the rationale why Ancelotti is leaving, they arrive into this recreation on the again of 4 successive wins within the league.
