El Clasico: Real Madrid vs Barcelona LIVE - Predicted line-ups and latest updates - LaLiga 21/22

Hello everybody and welcome along to this live blog for El Clasico. It's Real Madrid vs Barcelona at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, with Los Blancos looking for what would be a sixth consecutive victory over their rivals. But, Barcelona are improving under Xavi and will hope to take the three LaLiga Santander points back from the capital. Here on this live blog, we'll have all the pre-match build-up and then minute-by-minute Clasico updates too.

El Clasico: Real Madrid vs Barcelona LIVE - Latest updates

This is the very beginning of our Clasico live blog, as we bring you all the updates from this Sunday night's meeting between Real Madrid and Barcelona. All the updates follow on from here, with the most recent at the top.

17:00 GMT: Barcelona's predicted Clasico line-up

Xavi doesn't have so many question marks in his line-up, so Barcelona are expected to start with a strong side.

Barcelona's predicted starting line-up (4-3-3): Marc-Andre ter Stegen; Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Eric Garcia, Jordi Alba; Pedri, Sergio Busquets, Frenkie de Jong; Ousmane Dembele, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ferran Torres.

16:40 GMT: Real Madrid's predicted Clasico line-up

Real Madrid are missing Karim Benzema, so that is a big question mark. Marco Asensio is one of the options to lead the line:

Real Madrid's predicted starting line-up (4-3-3): Thibaut Courtois; Dani Carvajal, Eder Militao, David Alaba, Nacho Fernandez; Luka Modric, Casemiro, Toni Kroos; Rodrygo, Marco Asensio, Vinicius Junior.

16:20 GMT: What time does El Clasico start? Where can you watch it?

This Sunday's match between Real Madrid and Barcelona kicks off at 21:00 CET, the local time in Spain. For those living in the UK, you can tune in at 20:00 GMT and watch it on LaLigaTV. For USA-based viewers, the match will begin at 16:00 ET / 13:00 PT and be shown on ESPN+.