What To Look Out For In El Clasico

Barcelona and Real Madrid spell head-to-head connected Sunday successful a late-season El Clasico pinch immense ramifications for nan title race.

Madrid request a triumph to fortify dream of giving Carlo Ancelotti a farewell trophy.

Barca will dream this is nan last Clasico astatine their impermanent Olympic Stadium location - pinch nan Nou Camp group to reopen adjacent season.

BBC Sport looks astatine immoderate of nan talking points.

Barcelona lead Real Madrid by 4 points astatine nan apical of nan La Liga array pinch 4 games left.

A Barca triumph would return them to nan brink of nan title... but a Madrid triumph would really unfastened nan doorway again.

Two of Barcelona's last 3 games are against teams successful nan Champions League places - Villarreal astatine location and Athletic Bilbao away.

Tenth-placed Mallorca are nan highest squad successful nan array who Madrid person near to play.

Barca person been this season's entertainers, pinch 91 La Liga goals - to Real's 69.

This is apt to beryllium nan last Clasico for legendary Real Madrid leader Carlo Ancelotti.

The 65-year-old Italian was successful complaint of Real from 2013 to 2015 earlier taking complete for a 2nd clip successful 2021.

Ancelotti is nan first personification to lead Madrid to 15 trophies arsenic a head - including 3 Champions Leagues and 2 La Liga titles.

This is his last chance to make it 16.

Nothing charismatic has been announced but it is wide expected he will measurement down astatine nan extremity of nan play - astir apt earlier June's Fifa Club World Cup.

Hansi Flick has had an awesome first play successful complaint astatine Barcelona - including 2 trophies coming successful Clasicos.

The German could make it 4 wins from 4 Clasicos connected Sunday.

Barcelona won 4-0 astatine nan Bernabeu successful their first convention gathering of nan play successful October.

They met again successful January successful nan Spanish Super Cup last successful January - pinch Barca winning 5-2, contempt having goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny sent disconnected successful nan 56th minute.

And successful precocious April, Barca won 3-2 successful other clip successful Seville to assistance nan Copa del Rey.

Plenty has been said astir Lamine Yamal's effect this play - particularly successful their Champions League tally to nan semi-finals wherever they mislaid a thriller to Inter Milan.

The Spain correct winger, aged conscionable 17, has group up 21 goals successful each competitions for Barca this play - and scored 14 himself.

In his 3 Clasicos this season, he has 2 goals and 2 assists.

Mbappe, who was erstwhile nan 17-year-old nan world was talking about, has had a likewise prolific run successful his first play astatine Real Madrid.

The France captain, now 26, has scored 35 goals successful each competitions. In La Liga, he trails successful nan Golden Boot title by 1 extremity to Barcelona's Robert Lewandowski - 24 goals to 25.

Last season, his first astatine Real Madrid, England's Jude Bellingham was nan king of El Clasico.

Madrid won 3 retired of three, including nan Spanish Super Cup final, and Bellingham was nan leader successful some La Liga wins.

In October, Bellingham scored a 30-yard equaliser and past an injury-time volley successful a 2-1 win.

And successful April he netted a last-minute victor successful a 3-2 Clasico thriller astatine nan Bernabeu.

This play he has still been connected bully form, pinch 13 goals - but nary successful El Clasico and a acold outcry from past season's 23-goal title-winning heroics.