Barca sit high of La Liga as they put together to go to Santiago Bernabeu, sitting three factors away from Los Blancos who stay unbeaten after 10 video games.
Barca are winless throughout the 4 Clasico matches, friendlies apart, however Madrid have been been hit with two massive harm blows forward of the sport.
Date, kick-off time and venue
Actual Madrid vs Barcelona is scheduled for a 8pm BST kick-off on Saturday, October 26, 2024.
The match will happen at Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid.
The place to observe Actual Madrid vs Barcelona
TV channel: Within the UK, the sport might be televised stay on Premier Sports activities 1 UK.
Dwell stream: Followers can catch the competition stay on-line by way of the Premier Sports activities GB Participant.
Premier Sports activities is the UK and Eire rights holder for all LaLiga matches. Now you can pay a diminished subscription charge of £7.99 per 30 days to entry LALIGA TV by way of Premier Sports activities.
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Dwell weblog: You possibly can comply with all of the motion on matchday by way of Customary Sport’s stay weblog.
Actual Madrid vs Barcelona staff information
The hosts might be with out each Thibaut Courtois and Rodrygo for the sport, in a giant, double harm blow for 2 gamers who would have certainly began. Andriy Lunin will deputise in aim, whereas there’s a extra difficult determination for Carlo Ancelotti to make in assault.
Jude Bellingham might come into the entrance three alongside Vinicius Jr and Kylian Mbappe, in his first Clasico. That will see Aurelien Tchouameni be part of Eduardo Camavinga in midfield. Although Tchouameni has solely simply returned from harm, so throwing him in to the beginning XI of a Clasico might be a danger not price taking.
For Barcelona, Fermin Lopez made his first begin of the season in opposition to Bayern Munich to show his health, whereas Gavi and Frenkie de Jong are additionally out there once more in midfield and Dani Olmo is in competition for better involvement.
There are nonetheless plenty of key absentees, although, with Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Andreas Christensen and Ronald Araujo amongst these on the sidelines.
Unavailable: Actual Madrid might be with out Rodrygo
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Actual Madrid vs Barcelona prediction
This can be a actually intriguing Clasico – ain’t all of them? – as Actual Madrid head into the sport as clear, by a long way, favourites regardless of harm worries, Barcelona sitting high of the Liga standings and Robert Lewandowski in blistering type.
Madrid, unbeaten after 10 league video games, will once more show the hardest of nuts to crack for his or her fiercest rivals, who haven’t tasted victory within the Clasico in 4 makes an attempt.
However with Lewandowski high of the Pichichi standings – with 12 targets in 10 video games – and Madrid lacking Courtois, Barcelona will really feel they’ve an opportunity. This might be nearer than the bookies are predicting.
Face to face (h2h) historical past and outcomes
Actual Madrid vs Barcelona match odds
Odds by way of Betfair (topic to vary).