Real Madrid faces one last stumbling block in its waltz toward the Spanish league title. Barcelona, its chief rival, is coming to town on Sunday. Madrid is eight points ahead of Barcelona going into the clasico, so anything other than a road win for the Catalan club would leave the Liga leader with a more-than-comfortable cushion with just six more games remaining. teleSUR
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00:00This Sunday, the World Football witnesses the most watched game of club football, the
00:04Clásico.
00:05Real Madrid receive Barcelona de Santiago Bernabéu.
00:08Barcelona goes into the Clásico suffering the aftermath of defeat against PSG and with
00:12a heated locker room after the statements made by Kundogan and Araujo.
00:16Unlike Barcelona, Real Madrid are on the upswing after heroically reaching the Champions League
00:21semi-finals after a deadly duel against Manchester City.
00:25Vinicius and Carvajal had to withdraw from the match with discomfort, but it seems that
00:29both will be fit for the Clásico.
00:31Coach for Los Blancos Carlos Ancelotti said Sunday's game is a great opportunity to
00:35seal the team's leadership in the race for La Liga's title.
00:41It's a great opportunity for us to get closer to winning La Liga, bearing in mind, being
00:51aware of the difficulties we're going to have because Barcelona are a very lively team.
00:57We are recovering well.
00:58There are players who still need another day of rest.
01:01Ferland Mendy has not trained today.
01:02He needs another day.
01:04They will all be in the squad.
01:05We have had no problems of any kind.
01:07Tomorrow we will try to put out the best possible team.
01:11For his part, Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández stressed that the only goal is to win, to
01:15put pressure on this year's league leader.
01:18Yes, for us, it is the most important game of the season right now, this is clear.
01:23We have to win, we have to win to put pressure on the leader.
01:27Real Madrid, and well, if we win, we would be five points away.
01:31This is the scenario that we would like.
01:33We are going to try to compete and try to win at the Bernabeu.
01:36That is our goal.