🎙Luis Rojo: "If Raphinha fully recovers, he'll be the coach's first choice in El Clásico, with Rashford playing as a main striker. However, if the Brazilian isn't physically ready, Torres will be given the opportunity thanks to his advanced recovery and quick return to fitness."

📌 Since the beginning of his career, Szczęsny has faced Real Madrid 6 times and conceded 11 goals, an average of 1.8 goals per game. 📊 👉🏽 His mission in El Clásico is to achieve his first clean sheet against Real Madrid in his career, and his first clean sheet for this season.

🎙️ Jorge Valdano: "The Clásico will be like a final. Whoever loses will be affected psychologically, but they will only need a couple of weeks to regain their balance."

🎙 Valdano: "The season is still in its early stages, and neither team is fully built yet, but the match between Real Madrid and Barcelona always provides a very important diagnosis of each team's level at that stage."

🎙Valdano: "I expected Barcelona to be in better shape than they are now, even physically. I saw some players, like Pedri, asking to be substituted because he was so exhausted. They didn't participate in the Club World Cup and had a rest period, yet they're suffering physically."

🎙 Valdano continues: "Barcelona is now making longer efforts than necessary and is not succeeding in implementing the high press properly, which is what makes them struggle a lot."

📌 Barcelona will exhaust all options available to try to allow Hansi Flick to sit on the Santiago Bernabéu bench. 🏟 👉🏽 Following the Appeals Committee's rejection, the club will now refer the matter to the Administrative Court of Sport. [RAC1]

📌 There will be NO traditional lunch between Joan Laporta and Perez before Sunday's El Clásico. The official reason is the early kick-off time of 4:15 PM. However, a pre-match meeting is scheduled in the Bernabéu box an hour and a half before kick-off. 🤔 [sport]

📌 Jules Koundé is again not involved in training with the group today, and is a doubt for El Clásico. ❌️ 👉🏽 Frenkie de Jong is back. [sport]

📌 The Barça team bus for El Clàsico! 🚍

📌 Andreas Christensen trained with the group today. ✅️ [AS]

📌 Raphinha will be out at least until after the November international break if the injury is confirmed.. 🤕 ❌ Real Madrid ❌ Elche ❌ Club Brugge ❌ Celta Vigo ✅ Athletic Club (November 22) [AS]

🎙Pedri: "It's true that I would have liked all the players to be available, and I'm sure the coach and the team feel that way too, but these things happen. That's football."

🎙Pedri: "Sometimes you don't have the people you'd like to have present, but whoever plays will give their all, and we'll go for the three points."

🎙 Pedri: "It's a match everyone wants to play, and we're eager for the day to arrive to enjoy it. After the Champions League match, we arrive with confidence and great enthusiasm to put in a great performance."

🎙 Pedri: "As always, last season we won every match, and I hope this year will be the same. We shouldn't give too much importance to what the two teams did in previous matches. In El Clásico, past results don't mean much."

🎙 Pedri: "Last season we were at an amazing level, and we must regain that level. There are things we need to improve on."

🎙 Pedri: "It seems Real Madrid changed some things. They're trying to have more possession of the ball, and as always, they have a great offensive force. It'll be a difficult match, but we'll try to control them and take the initiative in the game."

🎙 Pedri: "I remember the Cup final, when I managed to score a goal, and the best thing was that we brought the trophy home."

📌 Another injury blow for Barcelona! 🤕 😕 Barça Atlètic's striker, Víctor Barberá a.k.a "Barberowski", who is in excellent form (6 goals), will undergo surgery for a tear in the rectus femoris of his right leg..