- Barca vs Real Madrid football judgment, 21h15 on 11/5
At 21h15, Real Madrid will clash Barca at Olimpic Lluis Company (Montjuic) in the match to decide the La Liga championship. Besides, the title of Pichichi – “top scorer” of the tournament – will also be placed on the scale. Robert Lewandowski is temporarily leading the race with 25 goals after 31 matches, more than 1 goal compared to Mbappe – who has pocketed 24 goals in 30 appearances. With the remaining 4 rounds, everything can still change.
Lewandowski was absent in the last 2 matches in La Liga due to a muscle injury in the left foot encountered in a 4-3 victory over Celta Vigo in Montjuic. Ferran Torres is the replacement of Barca’s 1-0 victory over the Mallorca at home, and Pau Victor was given the opportunity in the Valladolid 2-1 victory at Jose Zorrilla. Coach Hansi Flick gave a few minutes to play for Lewandowski in Barca’s 3-4 defeat against Inter Milan at Giuseppe Meazza, a sign that he was ready to re-export in the El Clasico match.
On the Mbappe side, the French striker took advantage of the time when Lewy was absent to create a double against Celta Vigo in a 3-2 victory at the Bernabeu last weekend. Mbappe also shot Barca this season. He scored from a beautiful free kick in the King’s Cup final that Real Madrid lost 2-3, and also scored in the final of the Spanish Super Cup-where Los Blancos lost 2-5 against Barca in Saudi Arabia.
Looking broadly, Mbappe is facing a historic opportunity: In this El Clasico match, he could reach – or even overcome – a record that even Cristiano Ronaldo could not break in the first season for Real Madrid. With 36 existing goals, Mbappe is only 1 goal compared to the record 37 score of the legendary Ivan Zamorano legend, established in the 1992/93 season – the highest number that a player has recorded in the debut season Real Madrid.
When Zamorano arrived at the Bernabeu in 1992, not many people thought his first season exploded. Even Cristiano Ronaldo, with an impressive first season, could not reach that milestone. CR7 scored 33 goals – a very respectable number, but still not enough to overcome “bam bam”. Mbappe is different. He was very close to that milestone. Just 1 more goal to level the record, and 2 goals to monopolize it. In the context of 4 more rounds in the season, the opportunity is still very open to the former PSG striker.
Breaking a special historical record, but doing it within the framework of the El Clasico – the match that was watched by the whole world – even more significant. Mbappe will enter the match with high performance, great confidence and special motivation: engraved his name into Real Madrid history by breaking a record that exists for more than 30 years.
To be honest, overcome the famous names mentioned above in the first season is not simple. Each of the above lists is a symbol of a period, a style and stature of Real Madrid. Even so, Mbappe, after only a few months of wearing a team, stood on a peer, even about to overcome. El Clasico is always a heavy reagent. But with Mbappe, this is also a golden opportunity to continue to prove him to Madrid not only to win the title, but to create a era.
Tomorrow night, the football world will look towards Montjuic, to Kylian Mbappe.
