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Perhaps the most anticipated and club game of the world.

Barcelona meet Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeau tonight 18:00 CET.

Real Madrid will meet Barcelona later today to cut short the point gap to 1 behind in the league. Barcelona, meanwhile, will look to maintain their undefeated start and clean sheet progress further.

Both teams stand 3rd and 1st respectively. Real Madrid have 18 points and are 1 point behind Sevilla and four behind Barcelona. Blaugrana are currently on driver's seat with 7 wins and a draw of eight.

On the other hand, Cristiano Ronaldo who has 15 goals from 7 games lock horns with Lionel Messi who looks to equal Zarra's all time La Liga goalscoring record with a goal. A hattrick would mean Ronaldo surpass Zarra and Di Stefano to La Liga's all time leading hattrick scorer with 23.

Suarez will make his debut for Catalans today and Isco may start instead of injured Bale. Ramos may also make a comeback for Varane.

Real and Barca have met 228 times with Los Blancos edging Barcelona 91-89 wins.

Rakitic wants clean sheet against Real Madrid

                                                                                                                                                                     

Rakitic: I want to continue the way how Sevilla defeated Real Madrid

The Croatian international wants to repeat the same success he had with Sevilla when they met the Los Blancos last March.

Ivan Rakitic is pleased to defeat Real Madrid for a second time in a row in his personal career when his former club did it when they met last time.

Real Madrid went on to lose against Sevilla days after a heartbreaking defeat to Barcelona in Santiago Bernabeau where Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick.

Days later, Madrid stumbled to another 2-1 defeat where Rakitic played a key role. He wants to defeat Real Madrid tonight with Barcelona.

"I know matches with Real and Barca are complicated. I won with Sevilla against Real and I want to continue it with Barca".

Meanwhile, Real Madrid, the team who scored most goals, face the team who hadn't concede a single goal in the league.