"Speak now, speak now," Vinícius told Lamine Yamal. And the player from Rocafonda summoned the Brazilian in the locker room tunnel, away from the cameras. After winning the first Clásico in months, Real Madrid threw a big party on the Santiago Bernabéu pitch, but many Real Madrid players preferred to go after Lamine Yamal immediately after the match. Their priority was to poke the young Barça player, rather than celebrate the victory. Lamine's words Yamal on a Kings League show, A competition in which he presides over a team and who, with an ironic tone, said that Real Madrid usually enjoys the referee's favor, was hounded throughout the match. At the end of the match, most of the protagonists tried to calm things down, following the sad images on the pitch. Only Tchouaméni spoke openly, and he didn't do so to attack Lamine Yamal; quite the opposite. He came to say that he likes it when players say things like that.

Hansi Flick's Barça, who so enthralled last season and who achieved comeback after comeback, left the Bernabéu licking their wounds (2-1). Hampered by injuries up front, missing Iñigo Martínez at the heart of the defense for another game, and overwhelmed by the fury of Mbappé, whom Szczesny denied was scoring a goal, the Blaugranas fell in the Clásico, and the Whites are further ahead in La Liga. An exercise in survival at a Bernabéu that has made Lamine Yamal their number one enemy hasn't been enough. Pedri's face, tired, disappointed, tortured, and sent off, is that of an entire Barça fan base that believed until the very end, but this time without the epic spirit that had so often spoiled us with this team full of promise.

Barça's narrow defeat at the Santiago Bernabéu against Real Madrid (2-1). The Catalans have not been able to recapture the sensations of last season's classics. and they see their eternal rival slipping five points in the league standings. Here are some quick notes.

Santiago Bernabéu will host this Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 4:15 p.m. the first classic of the season between Real Madrid and Barça, corresponding to Matchday 10 of the 2025-26 EA Sports League.

When Real Madrid set their sights on Brazil in 2022, they did so with the conviction that they had found the next great prodigy and, finally, the successor to Cristiano Ronaldo. Expectations, now excessive, prompted the club to make a massive investment in Palmeiras star Endrick Felipe Moreira. The gamble was reminiscent of those previously made with Vinícius and Rodrygo. Three years after exploding in the transfer window, the situation of this speedy and compact striker is one of absolute ostracism. So much so that if things don't turn around in the near future, he will far surpass Barça's poor investment in another promising Brazilian, Vitor Roque.

There are still two weeks to go until Barça visits the Santiago Bernabéu, but everything is already revolving around El Clásico: the international matches, the analysis, and even the bar chats. Hardly anyone seems interested in the fact that both teams will play Girona and Getafe beforehand, unless it serves as a test to check the fitness of some players who are doubtful, recovering from injuries, or are injured. The obsession with El Clásico is here to stay.

1. Hansi Flick's Barça will win their first La Liga title. And they will do so richly and in very difficult circumstances, having to play their home games at Montjuïc, which is no small handicap. But on Sunday, with a greater atmosphere than ever, Barça wrapped up the championship with another great victory against Real Madrid. And that was despite the fact that the team had everything against them: an inspired Mbappé, a refereeing mafia that knew what they were doing, a 2-0 deficit in the quarter-hour mark, and the statistics. Never in the history of football had either Barça or Madrid managed to win four consecutive games in a single season. This record was also shattered thanks to another historic comeback. This Sunday's match is, without a doubt, the one that will remain from the two years of exile at the Estadi Lluís Companys. It was another monument to football. And, in recent matches, Barça has already won over the entire world in several, not just the Barça faithful, who are once again very excited. The Copa del Rey final—also featuring a comeback—both matches against Inter, and the 90 minutes on Sunday, which ended 4-3 but could have ended 8-7 and wouldn't have been out of place.

Following Barça has become an act of faith, an agony. An exercise in masochism where you endure the wounds in expectation of a pleasure that doesn't always come. The clásico against Madrid, instead of being a day to take heart from the future, has been a new act of penance. A new wound in a torture that has been dragging on for too long. Barcelonismo bears the cross of following a team without ideas, which could have done even more damage if Madrid had been more successful in attack (1-2). This is the sad reality. Kun Agüero's goal, with 20 seconds left, was like an unfunny joke, when there was nothing left to do.