#ElClásico – Barcelona v Real Madrid: Match Results, Report and Goal Scorers

What a big night……. The second El Clasico of the season is ongoing right now (Wednesday) as Barcelona hosts Real Madrid in the first leg of their Copa del Rey semifinals. It will be the first of three Barca-Real matches over the next month, with the return leg and the second league match still to come. Barcelona is coming off a huge 6-1 second-leg win over Sevilla to advance to the semis, while Real dispatched Girona comfortably 7-3 on aggregate.

Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale were both left on the bench. Messi had felt pain in his thigh during Barca’s draw against Valencia on Sunday and, despite training on Tuesday evening, was not deemed fit enough to start the first leg at the Camp Nou.

Bale is still regaining fitness too following three weeks out with a calf injury although the Welshman might have been more confident of making Madrid’s line-up, having faced Alaves in La Liga on Sunday.

FULL TIME (Barcelona 1 – 1 Real Madrid)

‘Lucas Vázquez of Real Madrid puts his team ahead with a brilliant goal in 6mins, before Malcom of Barcelona equalized in 57mins’

And it all ended in draw…….