{"id":6050,"date":"2025-10-21T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:36:39","slug":"real-madrid-vs-barcelona-los-blancos-look-to-stay-top-oct-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/real-madrid-vs-barcelona-los-blancos-look-to-stay-top-oct-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid vs. Barcelona: Los Blancos Look to Stay Top (Oct 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Real Madrid host Barcelona in the first El Clasico of the La Liga season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Blancos remain top of the league and a win over their rivals could open up a five-point lead at the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blaugrana will be hoping to build on a win over Girona and catch up on their opponents in the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Odds<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Match Result<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Odds<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Real Madrid<\/td><td>10\/9<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Barcelona<\/td><td>5\/2<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Draw<\/td><td>3\/1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A tight one to call on the odds, with either side worth a punt, this one could be worth taking each-side-to-score to get a big win on this match. Bigger wins are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playnj.com\/sports-betting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sports betting online nj<\/a> with many more odds ready for you to fill that wallet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Back-to-Back Wins for Barcelona Over Real Madrid<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><br><\/td><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Real Madrid<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Barcelona<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Draw<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Games<\/td><td>57<\/td><td>20<\/td><td>27<\/td><td>10<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Goals<\/td><td>205<\/td><td>93<\/td><td>112<\/td><td><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona have won their last five straight against Real Madrid, with Los Blancos\u2019s last win over their rivals coming well back in 2024 two season ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the pairs last matchup, it ended 4-3 as four first half goals for the Blaugrana cancelled out a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key Stats<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Real Madrid have scored 15 goals in their last five games.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barcelona haven\u2019t lost to Real Madrid in their last five meetings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Real Madrid have the most clean sheets in La Liga this season so far with four.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barcelona have scored nine goals in their last five fixtures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Barcelona Team News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona beat Girona last time out but had a hiccup against Sevilla the matchday before, something they will be hoping to avoid against Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hansi Flick will have to watch this game from the stands, and his team will be without eight total players for this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andreas Christensen, Dani Olmo, Ferran Torres, Gavi, Joan Garcia, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski will all miss out injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rashy \ud83d\udc9c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/natN43nF6s\">pic.twitter.com\/natN43nF6s<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCBarcelona\/status\/1980348294862709015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Possible Lineup<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wojciech Szcesny (GK), Jules Kounde, Pau Kubarsi, Eric Garcia, Alejandro Balde, Marc Casado, Frenkie de Jong, Pedri, Lamine Yamal, Antonio Fernandez, Marcus Rashford<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Real Madrid Team News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid look the real deal in La Liga this season but a win over Barcelona will be key if they want to lift the title this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xabi Alonso will be without five players for this game, four defenders and one midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antonio Rudiger, Dani Carvajal, Dani Ceballos, Dean Huijsen and Ferland Mendy all miss out through injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udfe2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ferland_mendy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Ferland_Mendy<\/a><br>\ud83d\udfe0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gonzalo7garcia_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Gonzalo7Garcia_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rNP1u67TJc\">pic.twitter.com\/rNP1u67TJc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadrid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmadrid\/status\/1980287899519098973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Possible Lineup<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Thibaut Courtois (GK), Federico Valverde, Eder Militao, David Alaba, Alvaro Carreras, Aurelien Tchouanemi, Eduordo Camavinga, Franco Mastantuono, Jude Bellingham, Rodrygo, Kylian Mbappe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Real Madrid vs. Barcelona Picks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As is every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcbarcelona.com\/en\/el-clasico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Cl\u00e1sico<\/a>, this game is very hard to call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona have been able to get the better of Real for some time now but are blighted by injuries and haven\u2019t been spectacular in the league this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid have looked very good in the league but will be without several defenders for the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid host Barcelona in the first El Clasico of the La Liga season. Los Blancos remain top of the league and a win over their rivals could open up a five-point lead at the summit. The Blaugrana will be hoping to build on a win over Girona and catch up on their opponents in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Soccer"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Real-Madrid-vs-Barcelona-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Toby Pearson","author_link":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/author\/soccer\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Soccer","slug":"soccer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":504,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":504,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Soccer","category_nicename":"soccer","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}