Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, two of the largest and most important football clubs in the world, will face each other again in another edition of the Spanish classic, a match that carries a lot of history and arouses great passion and interest on the part of football fans. .
Whites and Azulgranas will face two opposite realities since, on the one hand, Real Madrid is the leader of LaLiga with a considerable advantage over its pursuers and is also classified for the semifinals of the 2023-2024 Champions League.
FC Barcelona, on the other hand, has not had a great season and its aspirations of closing Xavi Hernández’s cycle with a great title are almost gone. In the League they are second with 70 points after 31 games played; The difference with respect to Real Madrid is 8 units and the result of the classic can define the championship.
In the Champions League, the culé team fell in the quarterfinals at the hands of PSG and sees in the game against its staunch rival the opportunity to strike a blow of authority.
Classic schedule in Guatemala
The duel between Real Madrid and Barcelona will be valid for matchday 32 of LaLiga, which is led by the white team that accumulates 78 points. In the previous match of the season, it was the merengue team who took the victory after beating the Catalan team 1-2 at the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium.
The football match is scheduled to start on Sunday, April 21 at 1:00 p.m. in Guatemala at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid.
Rafa Márquez candidate to replace Xavi
Regardless of the result of the classic on April 21 and the season that Barcelona signs, it is already public knowledge that Xavi Hernández will leave the Blaugrana entity after the last game of the year.
According to a report from the agency EFEthe Mexican coach Rafael Márquez, current coach of Barça Atlético, Barcelona’s subsidiary team, has options to replace Xavi Hernández with a view to the next season.
Within the Catalan entity, Márquez’s candidacy was taken, since Xavi Hernández announced at the end of January his desire to leave the Barça bench at the end of this season, as “a natural matter”, as a spokesperson informed EFE. of the Catalan club.
In any case, FC Barcelona “has not yet activated” the search for a coach for the next season, something that will only occur when the season ends, which is when Xavi Hernández plans to leave the club, as he has reiterated on different occasions. .
“Márquez is the closest candidate, he will be one of the candidates that will be considered as an option when the time comes“commented the same source.
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