Real Madrid against Barcelona is never just an ordinary game of football, and the dazzling array of plots and subplots means this weekend’s meeting at the Bernabeu is surrounded by more anticipation than ever.
Luis Suarez returning from his suspension for biting an opponent to make his competitive Barca debut; Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the brink of goalscoring records and Barca keeper Claudio Bravo closing in on a clean-sheet record are some of the storylines to follow on Saturday.
With so many fascinating aspects to one of the greatest occasions in the sporting calendar, we take an in-depth numerical look at El Clasico.

229 – A long history of rivalry
Saturday’s Clasico will be the 229th competitive meeting between the teams in all competitions, with Real holding an overall 91-89 lead, while 48 games have been drawn.
However, Barca have enjoyed considerably the better of recent league encounters, winning eight of the 12 La Liga fixtures between the sides since Pep Guardiola was appointed manager in 2008, including a home and away double last season.

£639m – A mega-money match-up
Cost of Real Madrid team = £361m
Cost of Barcelona team = £278m

500m – Watching all around the world
The global television audience for Saturday’s game will be colossal, with estimates placing the number of worldwide viewers between 400 and 500 million.

251 – La Liga record in sight
Lionel Messi’s left-footed strike in Saturday’s 3-0 victory over Eibar took him to the milestone of 250 career goals in La Liga, leaving the Barcelona man just one behind the record held by 1940s Athletic Bilbao star Telmo Zarra.

22 – Ronaldo in a league of his own
Even by his own outrageously high standards, Real's Ronaldo has enjoyed a purple patch in the opening two months of the season, with a La Liga goals-per-game sequence of 1-1-3-4-1-3-2.
With 15 strikes to his name, Ronaldo has registered more goals in the opening eight rounds of the season than any other player in La Liga history, a feat all the more remarkable for the fact that he missed one of those games - a 4-2 defeat against Real Sociedad.

720 - Keeping it clean
Barca goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, it is fair to say, has made a decent impression since signing from Real Sociedad in the summer.
The Chile international has not conceded a single goal in 720 minutes of La Liga action, setting a new Spanish football record for consecutive clean sheets at the start of a season.

Eight - a host of new faces
Toni Kroos is used to playing in Der Klassiker for Bayern Munich, but how will he perform in El Clasico?
Both clubs were active in the transfer market this summer and at least seven players (plus one coach) are set to appear in the hothouse atmosphere of El Clasico for the very first time.
The most high-profile debutant, naturally, is Suarez, but there will also be important roles all over the pitch for team-mates and fellow summer signings Bravo, Jeremy Mathieu and Ivan Rakitic, while homegrown youngsters Munir El Haddadi, Sandro and Rafinha could appear from the bench.

500 - Can you hear them?
Will Barca's 500 fanatical fans be celebrating at the Bernabeu on Saturday night?
Barcelona will face a decidedly hostile atmosphere inside the Bernabeu, with only 500 of their supporters tucked away in a corner high inside the grand old stadium. The small allocation made available to the visitors is nothing unusual because Spanish football simply does not have a culture of fans travelling to away games.

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Some heart beats will win Grammy award today.

Reiyvinn:
Some heart beats will win Grammy award today.

Lol. Many will loose their money, some their sleep.

Real Madrid is going to win

plz will any super sport select station show d match??

lol my heart faint for d match o (barcelona fan)

dazey:
Real Madrid is going to win

don`t put ur moni on dat

[size=16pt]The first Clasico this season is on, Real Madrid host FC Barcelona in the ninth match day of the Spanish Liga BBVA. follow the live, the livecomments, the livescore, the lineups and the highlights of the match on Saturday 25 October 2014 starting 4:00 PM GMT at Santiago Bernabéu (Madrid)

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