I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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Welcome in to this edition of ESPN FC alongside Alamoreno. Chaka, his lap, I'm Sebastian Salas.

It's our great to have you along with us as we get set to look ahead to what figures to be.

A great weekend of football across Europe. A little bit later in the show we'll be talking about

cities, visit to Anfield or their face, Liverpool but we got to start as we have, I think,

for the last couple days and most of this week. Where's that?

The Spanish capital of Madrid. I've been look at the top half of the La Liga table

where we see Barcelona and Madrid are even on points Barcelona with a slight edge on goal difference.

That story tells us Barcelona ahead of Real Madrid. The odds tell us a very different story.

Al Madrid at home, prohibitive favorites in this one Barcelona, pretty significant underdogs.

A lot of that has to do with the recent form but also the recent history between these two teams.

Where Al Madrid has been dominant with the obvious exception of what happened in their last meeting back in March.

Barcelona's famous for nothing win. The refrain back then?

Was Barcelona is back? Things feel very different now from Orlots, head of Spain with that and the rest of the crew.

Thank you very much, Seb. A beautiful evening here in the Spanish capital, Luis and Pablo alongside me

to look ahead to our Classical on Sunday.

Boys, it's interesting when you look at the two rhetoric going into this clash from both sides.

Everything's a disaster for Barcelona and everything's fine for Real Madrid.

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