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Barcelona V Real Madrid Betting And Team News
Friday 12 December 2008 at 16:47
 A baptism of fire for new Real Madrid manager Juande Ramos as he faces Barcelona in his first league match as manager of Real Madrid. Barcelona are hot favourites to win the match and can be backed at 8/13 with SkyBet and Paddy Power. Real Madrid are 11/2 with Stan James and the draw is 31/10 with Stan James.
Barcelona Team News
Samuel Eto’o was unable to train during the week but should return and Andres Iniesta is doing well after his injury but is unlikely to feature.
Real Madrid Team News
Ruben de la Red, who collapsed during a match at the end of October has been ruled out for the rest of the season so he can have more tests on his heart. Also out for the season is Ruud van Nistelrooy and Mahamadou Diarra has a long term injury.
Barcelona v Real Madrid Betting
Real Madrid performed well during the week but that was against Zenit St Petersburg and this is a million time tougher. Barcelona should be able to win the game and 8/13 with SkyBet and Paddy Power is not a bad price considering they are six points clear at the top of the table.
Both sides have been involved in high scoring games recently and had Ramos not come in as manager of Real Madrid this game could have been very high scoring. It should still be over 2.5 goals at 8/15 with Paddy Power and Blue Square.
In the correct score market a 3-2 win for Barcelona is worth a punt at 28/1 with Coral but the best bet of the game could be a 2-1 win for Barcelona at 8/1 with Bet365. Other high scoring correct scores are 2-2 which is 18/1 with Bet365 and 4-2 to Barcelona which is 44/1 with bet365.
Thierry Henry scored his first hat trick for Barcelona last week and his is 40/1 with SkyBet to score another one. He is 6/1 with Ladbrokes to score first and 13/8 with Coral and Boylesports to score anytime. Samuel Eto’o scored four goals in a home game last month and he is 28/1 to score a hat trick with Blue Square, 9/2 to score first with Ladbrokes and 6/5 with Coral to score anytime. Another Barcelona player who scores plenty is Lionel Messi and he is 5/1 to score first with Blue Square and 11/8 to score anytime with Boylesports.
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