Barcelona – Real Madrid

Barcelona will beat their arch-enemy in the championship match.

Barcelona and Real Madrid approach the final El Clásico of the 2025/2026 season in different league positions and with different moods among the players, but with equally unclear prospects for the future. The Catalan club is one step away from defending the championship title. In the best traditions of drama, the second consecutive major trophy for Spain that Hansi Flick's side could win in a clash with its archrival. Any outcome that does not see Barcelona lose on Sunday would lead to this. Undoubtedly, the Blaugrana will be happy if they lift the trophy that day, but the season will leave a bitter aftertaste. Yes, La Liga will be won, but such an ambitious Flick-led squad had been expecting long-awaited success in the Champions League. In Real Madrid's case, one should not speak of aftertaste but of the bitter haze with which its players will head to the World Cup or go on vacation. In addition to the fact that the royal club will finish the season without a single trophy, a nightmare atmosphere also reigns in the club's locker room, where Álvaro Arbeloa does not control anything at all. The young specialist, probably, looks forward to his dismissal more than anyone else in the off-season. The apex of chaos in the Blancos' camp was a fight between Aurélien Tchouaméni and Federico Valverde, after which the latter went to hospital and will not be able to take the field at Camp Nou. It is also claimed in the press that six Real Madrid players simply do not speak to Arbeloa, waiting for his replacement to take over. It is hard to recall when something like this could happen at the most titled club in Europe? Of course, bookmakers expect that the Madrid club will be the cherry on top of Barcelona's celebratory cake, offering odds of 1.64 on a home win. For Barcelona, the most motivated to win, the royal club will arrive without Carvajal, Ceballos, Courtois, Éder Militão, Arda Güler, Mendy, Rodrygo and Valverde. The remaining visiting players will be far from thoughts about football. Barcelona will host their principled rival, coming off a run of five consecutive wins. Undoubtedly, the home side will not miss the opportunity to humiliate their vanquished opponent in such an important match for them.