Real Madrid v Barcelona live score

If you’re looking for a Real Madrid v Barcelona live score post then you’ve come to the right place. Tonight sees one of the biggest games in domestic football as the two giants of Spanish football take each other on at the El Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid. Manually refresh during the game to get the most recent updates from this game.

Real Madrid v Barcelona live score

The score finished 2-0 to Barcelona.

Update – the game is due to kick off at 9:00 pm British DST (Daylight Saving Time).
Update – Starting teams are:
Real Madrid: Casillas, Ramos, Arbeloa, Albiol, Garay, Gago, Xabi Alonso, Marcelo, Van der Vaart, Higuain, Ronaldo.
Barcelona: Valdes, Milito, Maxwell, Puyol, Pique, Busquets, Keita, Xavi, Alves, Pedro, Messi.

Update – the game is about to kick off – the atmosphere is electric – no wonder!
Update – Moment of silence (with music?) for the victims of the Polish air crash today.
Update – the game has started.
Update – Pretty feisty start as you might expect. Alonso dives in on Pedro but isn’t punished by the referee.
Update – Both teams are pressing high up the field, giving neither midfield any time on the ball. Sound familiar Arsenal fans…?
Update – Bit of controversy there – Pique handballs and gets a yellow card, but then has it rescinded since Ronaldo was offside. 9 minutes gone, still 0-0.
Update – Ronaldo is not a happy bunny. He thinks he’s been fouled three times already; the ref hasn’t thought so … you guessed it three times.
Update – 12 minutes. Messi goes on a trademark winding run and looks to be hauled down in the box (or maybe he slips). Possible penalty but the ref is having none of it.
Update – 14 minutes. Alonso gets the yellow card he’s been looking for.
Update – 16 minutes – Barca get their first chance but Alves blasts it over with a 25 yard free-kick.
Update – 20 minutes – Messi gets what you call an “unnecessary yellow card” for hand-balling a ball that was going nowhere anyway. Oh well – he does have a fault after all.
Update – 23 minutes – pretty even so far. Alonso has a pot shot at goal but it’s about 10 yards wide – and that’s a generous 10 yards.
Update – 28 minutes – the game is definitely opening up now. Ronaldo is getting on the ball quite a lot now but he hasn’t crafted an opening as yet.
Update – Albiol picks up a yellow for hauling down Messi.
Update – 32 minutes – Peculiar scenes here as Xavi picks up a yellow card for moaning at the referee. I think he was quite upset about an Alonso handball.
Update – 33 minutes – GOALLLLLLL. Lionel Messi is found in the box with a dinked pass from Xavi. He takes one touch round the defender and coolly finishes from 7 yards. That’s Messi’s 40th, yes 40th!!!, goal of the season.
Update – Very very quiet in the Bernabeu right now.
Update – 39 minutes. Alves has picked up yellow now – although he laughs it off. I don’t think we’ll be 11 v 11 in an hour’s time.
Update – 41 minutes. Higuain has a chance but blasts it into row Z. Make that Z+.
Update – 43 minutes. Real break quickly from a Barca corner but can only waste the chance. Marcelo’s final ball is so bad that Ronaldo falls over in exasperation. Oh well Ronnie – there’s always the second half.
Update – Half time. Barcelona on top. Will Real lose their 100% home record? Stay with us for the 2nd half.
Messi now has 40 goals this season. Can he beat the Barca record of 47 set by Ronaldo in the 96/97 season. I wouldn’t bet against it. In fact, I might bet on it ;)

Update – the second half has started.
Update – 50 minutes. Not much has changed in the second half. Real are struggling to break down the Barca defence which has 16 clean sheets this season.
Update – Marcelo has a snap shot that is saved well by Valdes in the Barcelona goal. Real are getting closer but it looks like Ronaldo has picked up a knock.
Update – 56 minutes GOALLLLLLLL – Ronaldo has a shot on target for Real but it’s easily saved. Barca then go up the other end, carve Real Madrid’s defence apart with a killer through ball and make it 2-0. Pedro is on the score card now for Barca….
Update – 58 minutes. Real bring on Guti to try and salvage the game, and maybe the season.
Update – 59 minutes – Van der Vaart has a golden chance for Real but fluffs his lines and fires straight at Valdes. That was THE chance to get back into the game.
Update – 62 minutes. Real have a free kick 25 yards out and Ronaldo drills is straight at the wall. Some how Ronaldo got booked winning that free-kick. Not quite sure why to be honest. This ref is yellow card crazy.
Update – 65 minutes. Ronaldo has another chance from 30 yards; this time he beats the wall but not the keeper; Valdes saves easily. He’s getting closer though.
Update – Real are struggling to stay in this and are starting to get pi**ed off at Barca. Sergio Ramos takes a huge chunk out of Messi. Lucky he got a bit of the ball there otherwise he’d be in trouble.
Update – 70 minutes. Ronaldo and Guti both have chances but Valdes saves well from both.
Update – 71 minutes. Raul is on for Van der Vaart. Can the legend rescue his team?
Update – Real have had 12 shots, Barca 3 but the score remains 2-0. So much for statistics.
Update – 72 minutes. Messi breaks through and shoots but Casillas saves well.
Update – Ten minutes left – What can Real Madrid muster? I don’t think Raul has touched the ball yet.
Update – 85 minutes. The Real fans are beginning to file out of the stadium. I think it might be all over.
Update – 86 minutes. Raul has a goal disallowed for handball by Benzema. Oh dear – that was a chance.
Update – 4 minutes of injury time.
Update – Game over. Barca win 2-0 and move 3 points clear in La Liga.

Both teams are currently deadlocked on 77 points in the La Liga. Amazingly their nearest rival is Valencia who have only 56 points. Can you imagine a 21 point deficit between second and third in any other European domestic top flight? That is the superiority of these two clubs at the moment. Barcelona have won the last 3 el clasicos – the most memorable being last years 6-2 malling in the corresponding fixture.

Tonight has been billed as the battle between FIFA’s world player of the year. Last years champion Ronaldo versus the mercurial talent of Lionel Messi – this year’s elected player. Messi is in devastating form after single handedly dumping Arsenal out of the Champions League earlier in the week. Both Ronaldo and Messi have great goalscoring records this term so it could go either way.

Team news: Barcelona are without Ibrahamovic and Abidal. Real Madrid are without Kaka and possibly Alonso who has a muscle injury.

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