Mateu Lahoz will direct Real Madrid-Barça del Bernabéu!

In spite of that Real Madrid and FC Barcelona play it to him in the Champions League, any forgets the Classical of the next Sunday. After measuring to Manchester City and Naples in his respective parties of gone of eighth of final, Barcelona and whites will return to the domestic championship, where will contest a key clash in Santiago Bernabéu. In another commitment of maximum level, the leadership is at stake.

The Real Spanish Federation of Football has made public the designations for the day 26 of First Division, and Mateu Lahoz will be the referee commissioned to direct this Classical. The pupilos of Quique Setién command in the classification with 55 points, whereas the ones of Zinedine Zidane, that only have taken out a point of the last six possible, have 53.

To his 42 years, Mateu Lahoz is a referee with a lot of experience so much in domestic competitions like international, and in his file state more than 400 parties to all the levels. His style is very known in the Spanish football, since it prefers to favour the game and pitar few faults although has some tendency to the descontrol, with decisions that in occasions cost to understand to the footballers.

It is necessary to remember that the Valencian, this same season, already armed a good wrap in the Camp Nou. It was the past month of October, in a duel against the Seville that finish with a 4-0 favourable to the culés and with two expelled, Ronald Araujo and Ousmane Dembélé. In the last minutes, the Uruguayan saw a red direct by a doubtful action in which supposedly it demolished to a rival being the last defence, and the French by the back protests that also put him in the street.

To date, Mateu Lahoz has directed four Classical between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona and the balance is slightly favourable to the whites, that have obtained two victories in these clashes (one in the Supercopa of 2012 and another in the final of Glass of the King of 2014). The victory culé was in party of League in 2015 and the last precedent is a tie in the gone of the semifinals of Glass of the King of the past year.

• Supercopa - 29.08.2012 - Madrid-Barça 2-1
• Glass of Rey (final) - 16/04/14 - Barça-Madrid 1-2
• League - 22.03.15 - Barça-Madrid 2-1
• Glass of Rey (semifinal, gone) - 06.02.19 - Barça-Madrid 1-1

A Classical crucial, but no decisive

The best news in the Classical of Santiago Bernabéu would be that Mateu Lahoz was not leading, and more given some precedents. The Barça knows that if it returns with the three points of the capital will step more to the revalidación of the championship, because it would open a boquete of five points with the eternal rival. Still they will remain 12 days at stake, but are in front of a crucial crash.