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On Sunday evening, the central match of the "La Liga" tour took place at the "Santiago Bernabeu" stadium – the "El Clasico" match, where unexpectedly Barcelona triumphed. The Barcelona players on the away trip simply did not give any chances to the Madrid "Real" team, defeating the "royal club" 4:0. The Catalans started the match better than their opponents, and scored the first goal in the 29th minute. After Ousmane Dembele's pass, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a precise header goal, scoring his first goal in his first "El Clasico". Ronald Araujo doubled the score in the first half. At the beginning of the second half, "Barca" scored two more goals. Ferran Torres scored in the 47th minute, and P. Aubameyang added another goal in the 51st minute. In this match, Xavi's pupils, apart from the goals, had several good chances to punish the porous Real defense, but ultimately they settled for just 4 goals. Throughout the history of the "El Clasico" matches, Real Madrid at home have only been defeated once – in 1974, when Barcelona humiliated the "royal club" 5:0 in front of their own fans. In this match, Carlo Ancelotti chose a strange tactic from the very beginning. The Italian started the match with four designated defensive midfielders (F. Valverde, Casemiro, L. Modric, and T. Kroos) and two forwards. Real Madrid tried to play on counterattacks, but it didn't pay off. Of course, one of the reasons for this tactic was that Karim Benzema could not help the team due to injury. Barcelona dominated from the very beginning and fully deservedly defeated their main rivals. However, despite this result, Real still confidently leads the La Liga championship. Barcelona, winning the match off the bench, will be able to chase Sevilla players in the tournament table.
