For the third consecutive year, FC Barcelona once again faces Real Madrid in the United States as part of its preseason tour. The headquarters of the Classic will be the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where the culés seek to maintain their dominance on North American soil against the 'merengues' after victories in 2017 (3-2), 2022 (1-0) and 2023 (3- 0), the latter achieved in Las Vegas almost exactly a year ago.

Hansi Flick no longer has Oriol Romeu among those available for the match, after the man from Ulldecona returned to Catalonia to close his return to Girona. The injured ones (Frenkie, Pedri, Araújo, Gavi) are also not available, in addition to those summoned by Spain for the Olympic Games (Eric García, Cubarsí and Fermín). Of the internationals, Ferran Torres and Lamine Yamal have yet to return, who will return to work after the tour. For their part, Christensen, Ter Stegen Raphinha and Gündogan will be ready to play, in addition to Mika Faye.

For the Barça kids, this is a new golden opportunity to show off, after a very good first performance last Tuesday against Manchester City. The coaching staff will once again have all the youth players, in addition to the discards like Clément Lenglet, who surprisingly left a good feeling against the 'sky blue' team. For Madrid there are also several important casualties led by Jude Bellingham, Kylian Mbappé and Vinicius Jr., who are still on vacation.

Line-ups confirmed of the Real Madrid-FC-Barcelona of turns it of pre-season 2024

  • XI of the Real Madrid: Courtois; Lucas Vázquez, Militao, Rüdiger, Fran García; Mario Martín, Modric, Ceballos; Burn Güler, Endrick and Brahim.
  • XI of the FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Álex Fence in, Christensen, Iñigo, Balde; Marc Bernal, Casadó, Pablo Tower; Pau Víctor, Lewandowski and Unai Hernández.
  • Bench of the FC Barcelona: Iñaki Crag, Astralaga, Kochen, Julián Araujo, Lenglet, Guille Fernández, Darvich, Raphinha, Vitor Roque, Quim Junyent, Héctor Fort, Sergi Domínguez, Gündogan, Gerard Martín, Mika Faye, Toni Fernández, Olmedo, Cuenca.

Hansi Flick changes to his entire defense with respect to the first friendly of the tour. Iñigo, Christensen and Balde will accompany Álex Valle, who will occupy the right back, while Ter Stegen returns to goal. The midfield duo made up of Casadó and Bernal remains, with Unai Fernández and Pau Víctor as wingers and Pablo Torre again in the center, this time with Robert Lewandowski as the main weapon to try to hurt the 'merengue' goal.

For his part, Carlo Ancelotti keeps his defense intact with respect to the friendly against AC Milan (0-1), with the exception of a Militao who reappears in place of Vallejo. In the midfield there is no news regarding the duel against the 'Rossoneri' team, nor is there any attack, with the trident made up of Arda Güler, Brahim Díaz and the Brazilian Endrick.