Sergio Ramos was fortunate with Clásico penalty, says AS referee. Messi whips in a low cross and Courtois can only palm it into the path of Piqué. The Brazilian is clean through and only needs to look up to see Asensio arriving at the far stick but he blasts the ball straight at Neto instead! The Barça stopper keeps his side in it with an incredible double save from Toni Kroos! Here's a remider of the home side's starting line-up. It also contains a table with average age, cumulative market value and average market value for each player position and overall. Sergiño Dest will slot in at right back. He manages to tap the ball back for Benzema whose shot is blocked. It should come as little surprise that Barcelona's return to winning ways against Ferencváros was inspired by Messi finding some of his missing form. Today's Clásico is the 245th meeting of the Liga giants in official competition. In good news for Real Madrid fans, Sergio Ramos will be avialable in Camp Nou after shrugging off the knock that sidelined him for the Shakhtar game. Ufffff! Madrid looking to hang on to possession as much as possible now as the clock runs down. Corner for Madrid as Benzema's cross is deflected behind by Piqué. The home side may well feel aggrieved after that penalty decision but Madrid have been more dangerous in the final 15 minutes than their hosts. Neto! This season, Reyna has started and shone in all of his team's three Bundesliga games so far - against Borussia Monchengladbach, Augsburg and Freiburg - providing his teammates with four assists and scoring one himself. Five shots apiece, with four for Barça and three for Madrid on target, possession fairly even at 45-55, pass completion rate 89-90 and 7-8 in tackles. Barça director Xavi Vilajoana's reaction to the penalty award has been doing the rounds. Ramos! Courtois! Neto, who has had a wonderful game for Barça, comes for a 50-50 with Rodrygo and the ball pops up to the Brazilian, who tees up Modric. However, the imposing Frenchman has shown little sign of these errors impacting him in the embryonic stages this season.Sergio Ramos (CB) - As the game entered its final ten minutes, with the score at 2-2, Real Betis conceded a penalty in Saturday's match. Barça hammering on the door now as both sides prepare changes. Ansu is now officially the youngest player in history to score in a Clásico! Neto was instrumental in ensuring Barça remained in the game until the 90th minute when Luka Modric found the net with cool precision after Madrid enjoyed the rub of the green following the keeper’s dash from the line. Hello and welcome to AS English's live coverage of the first Clásico of the 2020-21 season as Barcelona host Real Madrid at Camp Nou. Casemiro bundles through and slips in the area. Messi tears back towards his own goal and puts in a reducer on Vinicius, perfectly cleanly and approved by the ref! Rodrygo (RW) - The Brazilian teenager only started 16 games across all competitions last season but still finished as the side's third-top scorer with seven goals (and only second to Karim Benzema if penalties are excluded). Two games is a crisis at Real Madrid but we have to carry on doing things our way. Messi dropping deep already in search of the ball. Nice work from Mendy on the Madrid left but his cross thumps into Dest. The Brazilian comes in hard on Messi in the area and just, just gets his foot on the ball before bundling the Argentinean over. Courtois boasted the highest save percentage among regular starters in the division and already has one clean sheet from their opening two games.Dani Carvajal (RB) - The ever-reliable Carvajal has convinced Zidane and Madrid of his relentless quality to such an extent that the club were prepared to sell the prodigious talent of Achraf Hakimi to Inter this summer.Raphaël Varane (CB) - Madrid's last outing of the 2019/20 campaign was the scene of an incredibly rare sight - a Varane error. Former top-class referee and AS contributor, Iturralde González, spoke about the two big decisions made for and against the Real Madrid captain in the Camp Nou win. Madrid get the ball rolling in Camp Nou! As Sergio Ramos said, at Madrid two games is a crisis. We've had two inside the opening 10 at Camp Nou. Penalty awarded! Another Madrid chance falls to the feet of the Brazilian, who rather inevitably skies his effort under pressure. We've faced a lot of criticism over the past few days. The onus is very much on Koeman to prove his implementation of a new system is going to bear fruit in the long run. The moment we've all been waiting for: AS English's patented "best way to lose a fiver today" moment... our Clásico predictions! Ronald Koeman is also under the microscope early in his Barça tenure after defeat to Getafe on the heels of a 1-1 home draw against Sevilla. The usual formation that Real Madrid has been using during the last few years was 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 with all of their variations. However, Madrid have only had one attack of note and scored from it. However, Koeman may have something else up his sleeve today, although that is unlikely to include any deviation from his chosen formation. Empty Camp Nou Clásico reflects current state of both sides. Dest and Pedri are combining well on the right for Barcelona, the American getting forward at every opportunity. Coach Carlo Ancelotti typically favors the 4-2-3-1 for his Real Madrid formation. Messi goes on a solo run through the middle and gets his poor touch returned to him off a Madrid defender, but he loses the ball again trying to take the entire defence out. He added one of each in the Champions League and Koeman will be hoping for more of the same today, even if his star player has yet to score from open play this campaign. Borja Mayoral: Zinedine Zidane wanted me to stay at Real Madrid, I told him I had to leave. The Brazilian lays it off to Benzema but the Frenchman's attempt to find the top corner from outside the area flies over the bar. Messi and Sergio Ramos have made 87 Clásico appearances between them and will renew their duel today in Camp Nou with the Argentinean likely to spearhead Koeman's attack. The utility man was given the run-around by Cádiz due in part to a lack of game time and if Ansu Fati starts on the left, he will be instructed to run at Nacho as much as possible. Messi saw something there as Ansu made a run but the Argentinean's ball was too heavy. With Real regularly competing on three fronts during a season, Ancelotti, like the coaches at Europe’s other major clubs, must alternate his team so that players avoid fatigue and do not become unhappy on the bench if not regular first choices. Kick-off is at 16:00 CEST. He's a much more attacking option than Sergi Roberto but he's also leaving a fair bit of space behind him. Liverpool are another club that have been following the evolution of the 17-year-old, who joined the Bundesliga side's academy in 2019 from New York City FC. We have to remain calm and play the way we want to play. Madrid also benefited from a penalty decision from which few came out well in the replay. What a chance! It's football, there are highs and lows in a season.". Unidad Editorial Información Deportiva, S.L.U. Casemiro! It's end to end stuff now! Real Madrid win 3-1 in Camp Nou to go top overnight! It shows all personal information about the players, including age, nationality, contract duration and current market value. Barcelona will not be happy about that. The youngster almost has a second as his shot whistles past the far post. © Octubre Corner to Barcelona... Luka Modric preparing to come on. Official Website with the Real Madrid schedule of the games including La Liga and Champions League with the day, time, and ticket sales. There is plenty working in Zidane's favour going into today's game. Courtois in no hurry to take it... Benzema attempts to run it into the corner and concedes a throw. Time running out for Barça here... Neto again! The Barça keeper, who was biding his time for a panenka, guesses correctly but can't get a glove to it! Free kick to Barça in a very decent range for Messi, plum in front of the centre of Courtois' goal. ¿Olvidaste la contraseña? Real's defence was overrun in the opening half by the Ukrainian champions, who had to field a second string side in Madrid. Todos los derechos reservados. Sergio Ramos' presence set to shake up El Clásico. Todos los derechos reservados. Luka Modric starts on the bench with Fede Valverde preferred in midfield while Marco Asensio is handed the spare attacking place alongside Vinicius and Benzema. The Uruguayan's bottomless energy reserves allow him to cover absurd swathes of grass each match.Casemiro (CM) - Despite playing more minutes than any other Madrid man last season, the side's defensive lynchpin was left on the bench for their La Liga opener. It may well be for Koeman: Barça have not suffered back-to-back Liga defeats since 2016. With the eye-watering salaries of James Rodríguez and Gareth Bale off the wage bill, Zidane has carried over that hint of unpredictability to his substitutions, handing debuts to academy graduates Marvin Park and Sergio Arribas in the opening weeks. Barça had their chances after the penalty but Madrid were equally adventurous on the attack and racked up 15 shots to Barça's 10 by the whistle. It was difficult for us to play against a team sitting back, we could not find the solution. The Borussia Dortmund prodigy is a versatile player who can feature in both wings, as well as an attacking midfielder. Prior to that game the Argentinean had only scored once in four appearances this season and had provided zero assists. After deploying a 4-2-3-1 formation against Real Sociedad in Madrid's delayed season opener, Zidane granted Luka Jovic a rare start on Saturday against Real Betis, up front alongside Karim Benzema. Nacho thought about taking him down but then remembered he's on a yellow and pulled out of the challenge. His only active rival to have bagged more than eight is Karim Benzema, with nine overall. The Brazilian's shot is blocked and there's a Barça penalty shout now for handball against Varane! Not much to choose between the sides at the break. So the Griezmann saga rumbles on... the Frenchman has been regularly played out of position since his switch to Camp Nou from Atlético and alluded to that when on international duty with France. Zidane could also opt for a 4-4-2 as he has done in the past, adding Fede Valverde to the midfield to provide a bit of extra cover for a defence that is hardly watertight at the best of times. Madrid close the Barça defender down and manage to clear for a corner. Not Clément Lenglet, who helped himself to a chunk of Sergio Ramos’ shirt, nor the Madrid captain, who hurled himself to the turf after contact had ceased. Nine of Zidane's current squad have found the net in Clásico action but this fixture hasn't exactly oozed goals in recent meetings. Zinedine Zidane is facing the inevitable inquest after his side slumped to defeat against Shakhtar in midweek after Cádiz pulled off a text book smash-and-grab at the Alfredo di Stéfano a few days earlier. Para poder comentar debes estar Barça get into a spot of bother at the back and Vinicius almost nicks the ball for Madrid but the home side get it clear. And another as Dest lifts the ball into the area and Mendy hammers it out as De Jong was shaping for a shot! The Real captain hits it low to Neto's right. It's a decent delivery from Kroos and Ramos claime he was impeded by Lenglet as he went up for it but the Madrid captain made a bit of a meal of minimal contact.