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The Hindu
11-05-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Barcelona vs Real Madrid head-to-head record before La Liga El Clasico match
Barcelona will host Real Madrid at the Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys on Sunday 11 May, 2025. FC Barcelona will look to extend their lead in the top of the table from four to seven points as it looks to defeat its arch rival for the fourth time this season. Los Blancos' last loss will still be very fresh in their minds as they narrowly lost out on the Copa del Rey trophy few days back. This season the Catalans have managed to beat Madrid on three occasions- 4-0 away from home in the league, 5-2 in the Super Copa final and 3-2 in the Copa del Rey final after extra time. Although coming into this game as the underdog, Real Madrid will hope it can finally beat Barcelona and reignite its title defence. If the overall head-to-head record is considered, then Real Madrid slightly edges Barcelona in wins. Here is a complete head-to-head record of the two teams: Barcelona vs Real Madrid Head-to-Head Record Played: 260 Barcelona wins: 103 Draws: 51 Real Madrid wins: 105 El Clasico last 10 meetings May 27, 2025: FC Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid (Copa del Rey Final) Jan 12, 2025: Real Madrid 2-5 Barcelona (Supercopa de Espana Final) Oct 26, 2024: Real Madrid 0-4 Barcelona (La Liga) Apr 21, 2024: Real Madrid 3-2 Barcelona (La Liga) Jan 14, 2024: Real Madrid 4-1 Barcelona (Supercopa de Espana Final) Oct 28, 2023: Barcelona 1-2 Real Madrid (La Liga) Apr 05, 2023: Barcelona 0-4 Real Madrid (Copa del Rey Semifinals) Mar 19, 2023: Barcelona 2-1 Real Madrid (La Liga) Mar 02, 2023: Real Madrid 0-1 Barcelona (Copa del Rey Semifinals) Jan 15, 2023: Real Madrid 1-3 Barcelona (Supercopa de Espana Final)
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Barcelona players hit out at plans for Women's Supercopa in Saudi Arabia
Female players in Spain have hit out at plans to take the women's Supercopa to Saudi Arabia. The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has been in negotiations with the Saudis to extend their agreement to play the men's Supercopa semi-finals and final away from Spain until at least 2034 and include the women's competition too. However, Barcelona players have now criticised the plans. 'Taking the Supercopa outside of Spain and to a country that doesn't respect women? I don't see it,' the midfielder Patri Guijarro said after their semi-final win over Atlético Madrid in this year's edition. Barcelona went on to win their fifth Supercopa on Sunday, thrashing Real Madrid 5-0 in front of 9,425 fans in Butarque. It was the fourth consecutive year they lifted the trophy but the focus quickly shifted to the future of the tournament with players voicing their concerns about the possibility of playing in a nation where the lack of women's rights has been put in the spotlight. When the president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, was asked about ongoing negotiations he replied: 'A women's Super Copa in Saudi Arabia, why not?' His argument is that the Saudis want to develop women's football in their country. The Barcelona captain and two-time Ballon d'Or winner, Alexia Putellas, was not impressed as she spoke to media at the Iberdrola Supera awards. 'I'm starting to get the feeling that this is only a woman's fight. 'If we go there, it's obviously for an economic reason,' she added. 'If you don't go, you're affected by not having that income, so it's difficult to grow and you have to put up with 'you don't generate anything'.' The Athletic Bilbao coach, David Aznar, sounded resigned when he said: 'We are slaves to decisions and where they send us.' When Real Madrid took on Mallorca in the men's Supercopa semi-final in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of January Cristina Palavara, the wife of Mallorca player Dani Rodríguez, called out sexual aggression from locals upon leaving the stadium. 'As soon as the match finished, they started taunting us,' she said on her Instagram. 'There was no type of security. They laughed in our faces, touched our faces and they even grabbed women's bums. It was chaos until we reached the buses.' Sign up to Moving the Goalposts No topic is too small or too big for us to cover as we deliver a twice-weekly roundup of the wonderful world of women's football after newsletter promotion The Barcelona goalkeeper Cata Coll, who is from Mallorca, said after the men's Supercopa: 'I am very aware of what the partners of the Mallorca players suffered. This has to be looked into. As female players it's not just the act of going. It's the trip, the people in the stadiums and of course, women's rights.'
