Madrid BBC or Barcelona MSN – who will shine more?

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Madrid BBC or Barcelona MSN – who will shine more?

Real Madrid trio Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema will be looking forward to upstaging Barcelona’s famed MSN, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar, when the bitter rivals face off each other at Camp Nou this weekend.

Madrid BBC or Barcelona MSN – who will shine more?

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Real Madrid trio Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema will be looking forward to upstaging Barcelona’s famed MSN, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar, when the bitter rivals face off each other at Camp Nou this weekend.

When Messi was handed a record fifth Ballon d’Or in January, it was perhaps indicative of Barcelona and Real Madrid’s recent run of fortunes that much talk centred on whether Cristiano Ronaldo should have been replaced on the podium by Luis Suarez – interestingly making it an all Barca top three called MSN along with Neymar himself.

Barca are once again running away almsot effortlessly with La Liga, 10 points clear of Madrid smoothly, who are third as of now and have Zinedine Zidane getting to grips still with his first set of coaching ropes after Rafa Benitez’s depressing doomed-from-the-off, seven-month reign.

No player in La Liga this season has really had a hand in more goals than each member of the world-class sextet – ranging from Suarez’s 38 (26 goals, 12 assists) to Benzema’s 23 (20 goals, 3 assists).

That the Frenchman and Gareth Bale (15 goals and nine assists) even compare having played only 21 and 18 games in the league respectively this season is truly remarkable, even as the MSN are in blistering form.

Stranded on Los Blancos’ pedestal, Cristiano Ronaldo took aim at the remaining supporting cast after February’s loss to Atletico Madrid left Real Madrid with no realistic chance of winning the title.

He said: “I don’t want to disrespect anyone, but when the best players aren’t available it’s harder to win. I like to play with Karim, with Bale, with Marcelo.

“I’m not saying the others like Lucas [Vazquez], Jese and [Mateo] Kovacic are not good players – they are very good players – but it’s not the same.”

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Ronaldo later vigorously claimed his intention had only been to point out the undeniable misfortune of having Benzema and Bale unavailable.

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