Barca and Real will meet twice at the Santiago Bernabeu, for the second leg of their Copa del Rey semi-final and again in La Liga.
Barcelona’s Clement Lenglet – the Clasico ‘freezes time’ Barcelona’s Clement Lenglet – the Clasico ‘freezes time’
Even victory is unlikely to project Madrid back into the title race but for Santiago Solari’s side, momentum is at stake, their steady, if not unwavering, resurgence poised for a potential double boost ahead of the campaign’s decisive months. “The dynamics are completely different now,” says Lenglet. “These are the European champions. They have turned the tide.”Madrid and Barca look under threat in the Champions League from the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Atletico. Yet in terms of quality, the Clasico remains football’s greatest grudge match.
He spent 18 months at Sevilla, enough to persuade Barca to pay his 35.9 million-euro buy-out clause last summer. He has been thrown in at the deep end, with Samuel Umtiti only just recovering from a knee injury, allowing Lenglet to be fast-tracked into the role of Gerard Pique’s partner-in-chief.“We live with the best players in the world and that makes you learn quickly,” Lenglet said.
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