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Barcelona faced Real Madrid in the Clasico Pra-season friendly match in Las Vegas on Saturday which promised to offer a glimpse of the future of Spanish Giants' iconic competition.
The striking gambling ships in the Nevada Desert are more commonly associated with hosting the blockbuster heavyweight boxing contest than clashes between European football aristocracy members.
But at least for one night, only a stone from the neon lights sparkling from Vegas Strip, a beautiful game will take the highest bill as Barca and Face Off at the 65,000 capacity Stadium, the house of the Las Vegas Raiders NFL NFL Las Vegas Raiders Raiders NFL.
Friendly appearance is arranged to give a feeling like what the next chapter from Barcelona and Real Madrid competition.
With people like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo Long from Barcelona and Real each, many new signers will be in the spotlight when both teams descend to the field for the match that began at 8 pm local time (0300 GMT Sunday).
The Friendly can mark the first Clasico confrontation between the French Veterans Star Karim Benzema and the new recruitment that attacked Barcelona Robert Lewandowski.
Benzema has joined Real in Los Angeles this week after being given a long vacation by the club.
Appearance of Benzema Amulet - And Goals - Most responsible for helping Real win the record of the European Champions League crown in May.
Although the previous report suggested Benzema not to play a role in Clasico on Saturday, Manager Carlo Ancelotti chose a striker to lead a line in training games on the UCLA campus on Thursday, with Federico Valverde and Brazilian star Vinicius.
Ancelotti also tends to give out the running of new signing Antonio Rudiger, who joined from the English club Chelsea, and former Monaco midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni.
"The signing brought great quality to the troops," Ancelotti said this week.
"They are in the best that we can find in the market. Rudiger is a great central defender and great Tchouameni, very young and has a lot of potential."
- 'never exhibition' -
Ancelotti has hinted that he can use the Triga US Tour Tour as an opportunity to experiment with his frontlines, quoting an unusual mid-season disorder that will come this year because the first World Cup held in the midst of European Europe of the soccer calendar.
"Benzema is the first choice but we must understand that this will be a strange season, with the World Cup in between and we must see various choices," Ancelotti said.
One of the options may involve the spread of Eden Hazard as a nine fake nine, said Ancelotti.
While many pre-season games often have the nuances of glorified exercise games, Ancelotti insisted that the reciprocal antipathy between Real and Barcelona ensured that Saturday clashes would have advantages.
"This will be a very, very competitive match. This has never been an exhibition against Barcelona. This will be a spectacle," Ancelotti said.
Ancelotti Barcelona's colleague, Xavi Hernandez, will also have the opportunity to carry out rules for the signing of the club's summer.
Bayern Munich Lewandowski's sniper is a club tent agreement, but Barcelona has also invested a lot to bring Brazilian striker Raphina from Leeds and Franck Kessie midfielder from AC Milan and defender Andreas Christensen from Chelsea.
Lewandowski was launched by Barcelona on Wednesday but did not play at 6-0 the night before from Inter Miami.
The Polish star really wants to work even with his new teammate and can be set for Clasico's debut on Saturday.
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