Competition/Round: 2025-26 La Liga, Matchday 35
Barcelona Outs & Doubts: Lamine Yamal (out), Andreas Christensen (doubt)
Real Madrid Outs & Doubts: Dani Carvajal, Éder Militão, Federico Valverde, Rodrygo, Arda Güler, Dani Ceballos, Ferland Mendy (out), Kylian Mbappé (doubt)
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Date/Time: Sunday, May 10, 2026, 9pm CET/WAT (Barcelona), 8pm BST/WAT (UK & Nigeria), 3pm ET, 12pm PT (USA), 12.30am IST (India, Monday)
Venue: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Referee: Alejandro José Hernández Hernández
VAR: Javier Iglesias Villanueva
How to look at on TV: ESPN (USA), Premier Sports 1 (UK), SuperSport (Nigeria), Movistar (Spain), others
How to look at online: ESPN+ (USA), Premier Sports Player (UK), FanCode (India), Movistar+ (Spain), others
Following a tricky win away to Osasuna final weekend and a full week to relaxation, get well and practice, Barcelona return to motion for the most important sport of the season because the Catalans welcome their largest rivals Real Madrid for the ultimate El Clásico of the marketing campaign at The Greatest Stadium on Earth on Sunday Night Fútbol.
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There’s not a lot that must be stated about this one because the situation is fairly clear: keep away from defeat, and Barça will mathematically clinch back-to-back league titles and can get to have a good time in entrance of the house crowd and in entrance of their rivals. The La Liga trophy might be within the constructing, so the Blaugrana have an opportunity to have a full title occasion within the Catalan capital if they will end the job on Sunday.
Barça might be favorites given the current type of each groups, the huge 11-point hole within the desk, the large harm disaster dealing with Los Blancos, and a loopy week stuffed with drama on the capital with petitions asking for Kylian Mbappé’s exit and two fights between teammates that despatched Fede Valverde to the hospital and resulted in an enormous fantastic for the Uruguayan and his sparring accomplice Aurélien Tchouaméni.
Madrid are dealing with an unprecedented disaster that may even lead to José Mourinho’s return to try to remedy the problems within the dressing room, and all indicators level to them being damaged as a membership forward of Sunday’s Clásico. But anybody considering this might be a stroll within the park for Hansi Flick and his troops is unfortunately mistaken.
There continues to be an entire lot of expertise on this Madrid crew and they’ll look to show they will put the private points apart and put up a battle towards Barça, and the doable absence of Mbappé via harm will empower Vinicius Jr. to carry his greatest in a matchup he’s at all times very motivated for. Winning the league continues to be just about inconceivable even when they do pull off the upset on Sunday, however El Clásico is Madrid’s final probability to avoid wasting dignity in a horrible season.
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They might be harmful and extremely motivated, and Barça should be prepared for a real battle. The Catalans have gained 5 of the six Clásicos beneath Hansi Flick and are very snug on this matchup, however they nonetheless can’t take it as a right.
A title is at stake, Madrid are able to be damaged for good, and Camp Nou might be at its highest. It’s as much as the gamers to ship.
Let’s dance.
POSSIBLE LINEUPS
Barcelona (4-2-3-1): Joan; Kounde, Cubarsí, Martín, Cancelo; Gavi, Pedri; Roony, Olmo, Fermín; Lewandowski
Real Madrid (4-4-2): Courtois; Trent, Rüdiger, Huijsen, García; Bellingham, Tchouaméni, Pitarch, Camavinga; Brahim, Vinicius
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PREDICTION
Unlike many Barça followers who need a humiliation of their largest rivals, the one factor I genuinely care about is watching the gamers leaping in a circle in the midst of the pitch as Camp Nou celebrates profitable La Liga. I don’t care how we get there: 2-2 draw.