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00:00Real Madrid versus Barcelona, Barcelona versus Real Madrid, the biggest game in the whole world.
00:06We're back on Sunday.
00:09And this might be the only game which my predictions have changed every single day.
00:17My prediction, whenever I wake up, it changes.
00:21One day I wake up saying Madrid's going to win.
00:24Another day I wake up, Barca's going to win.
00:27Another day I wake up, it's going to be a draw.
00:29Another day I wake up, it's going to be a draw.
00:30I say the game is going to get cancelled.
00:32Another day I wake up, it's going to be played in America.
00:35I don't know what's going to happen in this game.
00:37If you ask me right now, I've got a prediction.
00:39Tomorrow I've got a different prediction.
00:41And on Wednesday I've got a different prediction.
00:43And on the game itself, I've got a different prediction.
00:44I don't know what's going to happen.
00:46I've got no idea what's going to happen.
00:47But I'll try my best to give you a prediction.
00:51Which is why today we're going to do a full preview of the game itself between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
00:57We are going to be predicting the starting 11 for both teams.
01:01The Barcelona starting 11 and the Real Madrid starting 11.
01:04And also tomorrow, I have got a stream on this channel with a Barcelona fan.
01:09Our final thoughts before the game.
01:13Who is most under pressure?
01:15We're going to be talking about takeaways from both teams heading into the EF Classic.
01:18Make sure you're there tomorrow at 5pm UK time.
01:22It will be a stream, so we're going to go live at 5pm.
01:24Anyway, let's talk about the game itself.
01:27Before we start, before we go any further, make sure you like the video.
01:30Make sure you subscribe to the channel.
01:32Because we are very, very, very close to 100k.
01:36We are only, only 1,700 subscribers away.
01:41It will be very good if we get that before or on the game of El Clasico.
01:47And of course, make sure you come in your own thoughts, your own predictions, takeaways, matchups, X, Y, and Z.
01:52Both teams are heading into this game on an interesting form, up in the air.
02:00The last five games for both teams, Real Madrid lost 5-2 against Atleti.
02:04They beat Kaira, they beat Villarreal, they beat Getafe, they beat Juve.
02:07As for Barcelona, they beat Sociedad, but then had that very disappointing week of losing against Paris Saint-Germain,
02:15losing against Seville, and then of course, after international duty,
02:18they beat Girona with a last second winner, and of course, beat Olympiakos 6-1.
02:23Both teams and both fan bases are not confident heading into the game,
02:28because they've got their own issues.
02:29Let's start with Barcelona's issues, their away team.
02:33Barcelona, they've got their own issues of, of course, the injury problems.
02:37Barcelona have got all of those players who are doubtful or who potentially might not play.
02:43And those are Liwa, Gavi, Daddy Elmo, I'm so devastated on that one, so devastated on that one,
02:51Matt Estenken, Juan Garcia, and Frankie De Jong, who is doubtful, but I'm pretty sure he's going to play.
02:58The key absences of those players are, wait, wait, wait, wait, where the hell is Rafinha?
03:04I doubt Rafinha's going to play. I doubt. Anyway, we'll talk about it.
03:10The key absences is, of course, Mr. Juan Garcia and Mr. Liwa Golsky, which this season has been somewhat of goals.
03:19Real Madrid, they've got their own injury issues where no Antonio Rudiger, no Dani Kavakau, David Alaba,
03:27Dean Hoeser will play, Traynor will not play, and Dani Sabayes will not play.
03:31So we've got our own issues, they've got their own issues.
03:34In terms of both teams, away from the injury issues, they've got actual personnel issues.
03:41Both set of fans, they're not happy with the team or the manager.
03:46Barcelona fans are not happy that Hansi Flick, despite the fact that has got a lot of rotation,
03:51despite the fact that a lot of players are not there, X, Y, and Z,
03:55they're not happy with the fact that the high line is maintaining.
03:57They want Hansi Flick to change the high line, to maybe adapt to the team,
04:02to maybe play a little bit deeper.
04:04That's not Hansi Flick. Hansi Flick is going to play the same way every single game.
04:09As for Real Madrid, they're not happy with the fact that yet to today,
04:13our performances hasn't been amazing.
04:15It hasn't been great.
04:17The games, I mean, the game against Juve, it wasn't good in my opinion.
04:21The game against Getafe, it was down to nine players before that point.
04:25We weren't that great. Villarreal was okay.
04:28Kaira, I mean, it's Kaira. What do you expect?
04:31But for Real Madrid, all the big games that we've had so far under Xabi Alonso, we've lost.
04:36Paris Saint-Germain, we lost 4-0. Atleti, we lost 5-2.
04:39This is now another big game. Another big game.
04:43So how is Xabi Alonso going to shape up?
04:47How is he going to tactically set up against another big team?
04:51Because every single time we face the big team, we've lost.
04:54So the track record is not great.
04:56And as for Barcelona, of course, the takeaway is coming into the game that Barcelona last season beat us four times.
05:05We haven't beaten Barcelona.
05:06Another takeaway, this is Xabi Alonso, his first time managing Real Madrid against Barcelona.
05:12Another takeaway is the fact that Hansi Flick is unbeaten against Real Madrid.
05:18And another takeaway is the line-ups and the match-ups.
05:22As for Barcelona, this is what I expect that is going to happen.
05:27I expect Schurzen to play.
05:29I don't think that's a surprise.
05:31I don't think that is a shock.
05:32I think with no Juan Garcia, I do expect Schurzen to play.
05:36Right back, it's interesting because Koundé hasn't been very good recently over the past games, I would say.
05:43He hasn't been the greatest, but I still expect Koundé to play this game.
05:50So I expect Koundé to take it.
05:52The two centre-backs, I mean, let's go bolder straight away before we can talk about the centre-backs.
05:57This is how I expect Barcelona to fall out, to shape up in terms of defensively.
06:02The two centre-backs is interesting because Hansi Flick can play Arrujo, who, of course, you need his pace against Mbappé and Vinny.
06:12You need his strength.
06:13You need his physical ability, his attributes, of course.
06:16But at the same time, you need someone that in the back line understands the high line, is more capable to move up and move down.
06:25And it's well-capable to, of course, when he's got the ball, he can make something with it.
06:30One of them is, of course, Mr. Kobasi, who's not having, again, the most grace of season to what he had last season.
06:37But, of course, with Nego Martinez, he has to adapt to it.
06:39And the person who I think will partner him, I think, will be Eric Garcia.
06:44This is what I expect Barcelona to shape up tomorrow.
06:49Koundé, Eric Garcia, Kobasi, and Balde, Alejandro Badre.
06:55The two midfielders, it's going to be Pedri, and it's going to be Frankie de Jong.
07:01This is what I expect.
07:02Frankie, they're saying that he is doubtful.
07:05He's going to play.
07:06He's going to play.
07:07Then we've got other positions.
07:10That's only one position out there, which is up in the air.
07:13Laminya Miles is going to play.
07:14That is, we all know about that.
07:17Rashford is going to play.
07:18We all know about that as well.
07:20And Firmin Lopez is going to play.
07:22I think we all know about that as well.
07:24Those three are non-disputed.
07:27Those three are guaranteed starters for Barcelona.
07:30Then we've got the last position.
07:32It's between two players, in my personal opinion.
07:35It's either between Casado.
07:38So Barcelona can play a Rashford in there, put Firmin in there, and then have maybe Pedri as a 10, or Frankie as a 10.
07:46Or play a three-man midfield, so a 4-3-3 against Real Madrid.
07:51Or they can give it to Emesta Rafinha, who has just come back from an injury.
07:56Rafinha hasn't played a single game over the past four weeks.
07:59He has been pushing himself to play this game.
08:02He's been trying his absolute best to be healthy for this game.
08:06But a part of me don't think he's going to start.
08:09I don't think he's fully, fully healthy to play this game.
08:12Hence the reason why I think Barcelona will be playing Casado.
08:18And what I think is going to happen, I think it's going to be a three-man midfield of Lamin, Rashford up front, Firmin on the wing,
08:25or maybe have Pedri as a 10, or Frankie as a 10.
08:29But I expect the 11 which I expect, the 11 players which I expect Barcelona to play, is those exact 11 players.
08:36Of Koundé, Eric Garcia, Koubasi, Bode, Casado, Pedri, Frankie, Lamin, Rashford, and Femi Lopez.
08:43As for Real Madrid, our team is filled with complication on its own.
08:50Question marks about certain players.
08:51Not with injuries, more with what Xabi Alonso is going to do with certain players.
08:56Thibaut Katoa is a non-standard.
08:59Carreras at left-back is easy as well.
09:03And Militao is easy as well.
09:05Those are the guaranteed two players so far defensively.
09:09The question is, of course, the right-back position.
09:11Whether Dani Kavajal is healthy, or whether Trent Alexander-Arnold is healthy.
09:16I don't think Dani Kavajal will play.
09:18Neither do I think Trent will play.
09:19I think Trent will play the game against Liverpool, so I think he'll be saved for Liverpool.
09:24Because, of course, that game, Trent will not be playing.
09:26So I expect the right-back to be Fede Valverde, who's been playing right-back over the past couple games.
09:33And he's been doing it at a very, very good level.
09:36And then, the last position.
09:38Dean Hoyssen didn't play the last two games.
09:40Raul Asenio played the last game, did very well, got taken off because he got injured.
09:44Alaba played against Getafe, played one half, got taken off.
09:47But the person that I expect to play this game is Mr. Dean Hoyssen, who I expect him to be back for this game.
09:55He didn't play against Getafe.
09:56He didn't play against Juve.
09:57I think he got saved.
09:58And I think this is how Real Madrid is going to shape up defensively against Barcelona.
10:03Then we've got the two-man pivot line.
10:05And I expect it to be Mr. Kamavinga.
10:07And I expect it to be Mr. Chimeni.
10:11This is how I expect Real Madrid to play defensively.
10:14Both Kamavinga and Chimeni.
10:15Both of them started with each other against Getafe.
10:18Both of them played at one point when Kamavinga came on against Juve.
10:22Kamavinga has been so good since he came back with an injury.
10:24Chimeni has had a very good start to the season.
10:28And Xabi Alonso has given praises and flowers to both players.
10:31Both Kamavinga and both Chimeni.
10:33So I expect both of them to play.
10:34The last person who's going to be playing is, of course, Mr. Jude Bellingham.
10:39That's the last person.
10:40Then we, of course, the person on the left-hand side.
10:43I don't think Alonso is going to be dropping Vinny Jr. on the El Classico.
10:48Because if he does, a lot, a lot, a lot of question marks will be raised towards it.
10:52I don't think he's able to do it.
10:54Because Vinny Jr. hasn't given you a reason to drop him.
10:58Game against Getafe, he was very good when he came off the bench.
11:02The game, of course, against Juve, he was the one that scored pretty much the goal.
11:07Yes, Jude scored the tap-in, but Vinny created it out of nowhere.
11:11And, of course, up front is Mr. La Liga top scorer, Champions League top scorer, Mr. Kylian Mbappe.
11:17He'll be playing.
11:18The last position is between three players.
11:21The last position, you know what, three is a stretch.
11:25It's between two players.
11:26It's between Franco Mestatuno and it's between Arda Guller.
11:30Franco Mestatuno started against Getafe.
11:34Didn't have the greatest game against Getafe.
11:36Franco did not play against Juve.
11:41He was on the bench.
11:42A report has been saying the reason why he was on the bench is because Xabi Alonso wanted to save him for El Classico.
11:50Arda Guller played against Juventus, dropped a man-of-the-match performance, got the man-of-the-match award, but got taken off because of the fact he got tired.
12:00And secondly, reports are saying that Xabi Alonso is saving him for Barcelona.
12:05So we've got one person who didn't start against Juve because he wanted to be saved against Barca.
12:11And one person got taken off against Juve because he wanted to be saved against Barcelona.
12:16We all understand, we have all seen Xabi Alonso so far this season.
12:21He's got his own regime and his own rotations with Real Madrid.
12:27On the left-hand side is Vinian Rodrigo.
12:30Up front is Mbappe, Gonzalo Garcia.
12:32On the right-hand side is Franco and Brahim.
12:34In the middle, the midfield options that we have.
12:37Left-back, we all know. X, Y, and Z.
12:40So far, Real Madrid so far this season have yet to play a game where there is no Brahim and no Franco as a starter.
12:50Because Xabi Alonso has made it very clear this season.
12:53I want a natural right winger.
12:57Ardegula is not a natural right winger in Xabi's eyes.
13:02Same with my eyes and everyone's eyes.
13:05I mean, I said it last season.
13:06He's a midfielder and thankfully enough, he's been playing as a midfielder this season.
13:11It begs the question now whether he wants to have a natural right winger in Franco-Mastatuna.
13:17Because one thing that Franco offers is his off-the-ball movement.
13:21He presses, he runs, he changes the ball.
13:24And when he gets the ball, he's very raw with it.
13:27But he is very, he wants to get something done.
13:30He wants to create something.
13:31He's all over the place when he gets the ball.
13:33But off-the-ball, I can't deny the fact that he runs, he chases, he defends, he presses at all costs.
13:39And that's what you need against Barcelona.
13:40Because I don't expect us to have the ball 100 times the ball.
13:43I don't expect us to have the ball like 90%, 80%.
13:46I do expect Barca to have the ball more than us.
13:48So we need someone off the ball to run, chase and X, Y, and Z.
13:52But at the same time, what we do need is someone when he gets the ball,
13:56he can make something happen out of nothing similar to Arda Gula.
13:59He can create chances.
14:00He can find passes better than anyone else in this Real Madrid team.
14:05And I would be very shocked.
14:09And I would be very, very amazed if Arda Gula does not start.
14:14Hence the reason why Arda have come to conclusions that he should be a personal and a guaranteed starter.
14:23This is not how I expect Madrid to shape up.
14:26I do expect Madrid to shape up like this.
14:28I think it would be more like this in a four-man midfield where Vinic can rotate, Mbappe can rotate.
14:36Arda is not going to be on the byline most of the time.
14:39He's going to invert most of you, which means Fede Valverde will have a nice little axis on the right-hand side.
14:44But when we defend, it's going to be more like this.
14:47We're going to defend like this.
14:50But when we have the ball, it's going to be more like this.
14:55With Vinic on the left-hand side, Mbappe is going to be rotating, and it's going to be more like this.
15:00That's how I expect us.
15:02When we have the ball, this is how I expect us to do.
15:06But this is the question mark.
15:08Whether Arda will be playing or whether Frankl will be playing.
15:12Like I said, I'll be very, very surprised.
15:15I'll be very shocked if Arda doesn't start.
15:17And if Arda doesn't start, then my goodness, I don't think we're able to create nothing.
15:22Because as you guys have seen in the season, most of our creation and most of our chance, the passages and the combination we play to find the third has come down to Arda Gula.
15:32When Arda Gula is on the pitch, Real Madrid, they create more chances.
15:36It's not a coincidence that Arda Gula leads the whole top five leagues with most chances created, not just in the league, but across all competition.
15:44He's number one. He's above any other midfielder, any other winger.
15:48He creates more chances than any other player in the top five leagues.
15:52And it's the reason having him in the start of the 11th against Barcelona will be crucial.
15:57The match-up is now different match-ups.
16:00The first match-up is Laminya Mal against Alvaro Carreras.
16:03Alvaro Carreras has had a good season, except for one game.
16:07And that one game happened against Atletico Madrid, where we got absolute smoke.
16:12And Alvaro Carreras dropped arguably one of the worst performances of the season.
16:16That was his toughest match-up, and he didn't deliver.
16:20Which now begs the question, he's now facing arguably the scariest right-winger in the whole world, how he's going to cope with that.
16:26So I'm looking forward to see how Alvaro manages and plays against Laminya Mal.
16:32Of course, it's not going to be a world where I expect it to be 1v1.
16:36I do expect Real Madrid to make it difficult for Laminya Mal.
16:39Hence the reason, when we do have the ball, I expect Jude and Cermenny to, of course, double-team, triple-team,
16:44when, of course, the moment is right.
16:46In the midfield, the midfield battle is going to be interesting between, of course, Pedri, Casado and Frenkie.
16:52And, of course, Camavinga, Cermenny, Jude and Ada Gula.
16:55Of course, Pedri has been very good this season.
16:58So has Frenkie, but at the same time, Real Madrid, with Ada Gula, with Camavinga, Cermenny, Jude,
17:02has all had their moments as well this season, when Ada Gula has arguably been one of the best midfielders so far this season.
17:07So it's going to be interesting to see how Barcelona is going to defend against such a profile.
17:12And then we've got the high line, and in terms of Barcelona defensively.
17:16Barcelona defensively, the past couple of games, has been very bad.
17:19They've been leaking in goals, left, right, centre.
17:22The high line has not been high lining, and the full-back pairing, and the full-back understanding,
17:27or the back four understanding hasn't been the greatest.
17:32Olympiacos, yes, they lost 6-1.
17:33Before the man got sent off, they had so many chances.
17:37Girona had so many chances.
17:39Seville had so many chances.
17:40Paris Saint-Germain had so many chances.
17:42Barcelona has been leaking so many goals.
17:44And the high line of Barcelona, it's not the same as last season.
17:48Because last season, you had a leader of Inigo Martinez, who basically instructed, demanded all the players to move up at the right moment of time.
17:56Whereas this season, there's a lot of players who move up, but others, they don't move up, which basically exposes the high line, exploits both on the wings.
18:06We have Mbappe and Vinny Jr., who can do it better than anyone else.
18:11And we have Jude Beningham, who, when it comes to smelling in the final third, does it better than anyone as well.
18:16So, I do expect Barca to concede goals.
18:19That is a given.
18:21I expect Barca to concede goals, and I expect us to concede goals.
18:24Because, of course, Barcelona, they can score in different type of ways.
18:29And I think, over the past, yes, we've kept clean sheets against Juve, against Getafe, against Kaira, the last three games.
18:38But, brother, we should have conceded against Kaira early on.
18:42We should have conceded against Juve.
18:44And we had a last-minute chance, where we played against nine players, yet Getafe created a chance against us.
18:51And in the big games, it haven't been good.
18:54And in the big games, we've conceded nine goals in two games.
18:57Four against Paris Saint-Germain, and five against Atleti.
19:02And last season, you saw how many goals Barca scored against us, in the league, at home against us.
19:08In the Super Cup, we conceded four.
19:11In La Liga, in October, we conceded five.
19:15In Saudi Arabia.
19:19And in the Cup, we conceded three.
19:21And in the league, we conceded three.
19:23So we've conceded so many goals against Barcelona.
19:25Hence the reason why we are going to concede goals today as well.
19:28And Marcus Rashford has been on form.
19:30Firmin has been on form.
19:32Firmin on the score sheet.
19:34So Barca will score against us.
19:35And if Rafinha plays, it will add another element, because it's important to understand that when Rafinha's got the ball,
19:42and when he crosses in the side, Rashford hasn't managed to do it.
19:46Firmin hasn't managed to do it.
19:47We know our Barca opponent player has understood the crossing, understood the runs, because Rafinha's not there.
19:53Because whenever Lamine crosses the ball, Rafinha's right there at the back post.
19:57And last season, Rafinha scored so many goals against us in similar fashion.
20:01So Fede and Elamilitao, they need to be very careful.
20:05They need to be very careful.
20:06The health of Dean Hoyser will be important.
20:08Let's see if he's fully, 100% healthy.
20:11And of course, we need to test and challenge Scherzny, who hasn't been great.
20:15But Olympiacos, not great enough.
20:18The game against Girona, Seville, Paris and Jermaine, not great enough.
20:22So we need to test and we need to make a difficult choice and he hasn't been great.
20:26So both teams are heading into this game, not the best of form.
20:31Not, they haven't got the full 11 in place.
20:35So it's a very interesting classico.
20:36Both teams are not confident as well.
20:39Like, I'm not confident.
20:40Barca fans, a lot of Barca fans are saying,
20:41we're going to concede so many goals to Mbappé and Vinny.
20:45So both teams are very sceptical.
20:47They're very, very nervous before the game.
20:52My prediction now might change tomorrow on the stream.
20:57And my prediction on the stream tomorrow might change on Saturday.
21:00And my prediction on Saturday might change on Sunday when the game starts.
21:04But as of right now, if you ask me right this second, I expect Real Madrid to win this game.
21:14Because if Real Madrid don't win this game against this Barcelona team, who we've seen for the past four games, leaking so many goals, leaking so many chances and not being good enough.
21:29And their best players are out in Juan Garcia and Liwa and Rafinha potentially.
21:37There will be a lot of question marks about Xabi Alonso because there's no way you can start the season and losing in three of the biggest games.
21:45That would be a question mark so far on you.
21:50The fashion you lose is different.
21:52If you lose in the last second fashion, yet you dominate the game, it's different.
21:57I'm not going to judge you.
21:58But if you lose the same fashion, we lost against Paris Saint-Germain.
22:03We lost against Atleti.
22:04And now against Barcelona?
22:05Then hey, hey, hey.
22:09But these are currently my thoughts and my preview for the game.
22:13Catch us tomorrow, of course, 5pm.
22:16Myself and another Barcelona fan.
22:18You guys will find out tomorrow who it is at 5pm.
22:21And of course, on Sunday, El Clasico.
22:24I'm going to be going an hour early.
22:26An hour early or maybe an hour because the game will start at...
22:30The game will start at what?
22:33315.
22:33I might just go live at 2pm.
22:36I might go live at 2pm so we can talk about it at a full, full length.
22:40But catch us then.
22:42Make sure you like the video.
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22:45Because I would love to get to 100k on the day of El Clasico.
22:49Make my dream come true.
22:50And comment your own thoughts.
22:52And I'll see you soon with another video.
22:55Peace.
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