Summary

  • Barcelona go four points clear at top

  • Suarez controls long ball and slots home winner

  • Messi 43 goals this season; Ronaldo 42

  • Messi 21 El Clasico goals; Ronaldo 15

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

  1. Gary Lineker
    Ex-Barcelona striker and MOTD presenter

    Suarez strikes! It's quite a good feeling scoring at the Camp Nou in El Clasico. Just saying.

  2. YELLOW CARD

    Javier Mascherano is booked for a bad challenge on Cristiano Ronaldo, cuts him in half! Ronaldo then makes the slightest touch on the Argentine as he rolls over and Mascherano goes down like an extra in the A-Team. Awful play acting, a triple roll with pike. That is poor.

    Will we get a red before the end of the night?

  3. Join the debate at #bbceurofooty

    Jamie Matthews: That first touch by Suarez was ridiculous! Great goal!

    Madan Roka: Suarez is just too good. The problem is he doesn't get as many chances like he used to get in Liverpool.

    Tom Faulkner: How does Pepe get in the Madrid team over Varane? Average player.

  4. Spanish football writer Andy West at the Nou Camp

    "Fantastic goal by Suarez, made by a perfect first touch as he ran onto what appeared to be a routine long ball forward by Dani Alves. We've been saying Barca are more direct this season - there's your proof."

  5. Luis SuarezGetty Images

    That's perhaps the difference that the very best players can make to a game. They can be out of it for an hour and then burst in to score when it matters. Fine finish from Luis Suarez, as Cristiano Ronaldo heads over at the other end.

    As it stands, Barca would be four points clear at the top.

  6. GOAL

    LUis Suarez goalGetty Images
    Luis SuarezGetty Images

    Brilliant play from Luis Suarez! He's had a quiet game but give him a chance and he'll bury it. Dani Alves floats a ball over the top. it travels a good 40 yards, Suarez kills it with one touch and then slides it across Iker Casillas and into the net.

    Sometimes the long ball is the right ball...

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    Suneil: My first 'El Clasico'. What is this?! I've seen more football during a performance of Swan Lake. Pathetic.

    Vinny Dozie: I really see play-acting killing the beautiful game we all love. Neymar should quit football and head to Hollywood.

    Slowbear: Gareth is having a stinker tonight - lucky he has Cristiano to Bale him out!

  8. The intensity and tempo has just dropped, Real Madrid keeping hold of the ball nicely. Time for some changes? Xavi gets a burst of applause as he starts to warm up.

  9. YELLOW CARD

    Lionel MessiGetty Images

    We're running out of players who haven't been booked. Luka Modric sees yellow for tripping Lionel Messi, it was a burst from the little genius too, right down the middle and Modric took one for the team. That's seven bookings now (I think) - five for Real.

    Sergio Ramos clears the following free-kick, expert header out.

  10. Great covering from Pepe to clear his lines, and it had to be too. Real Madrid had one man back against two strikers there! Crazy.

  11. Barcelona v Real Madrid

  12. GREAT SAVE!

    Jeremy Mathieu is well marshalled this time though and Real clear. And then put together a great attack, one-touch stuff, Cristiano Ronaldo to Karim Benzema, slicing through the Barca backline but Claudio Bravo saves well from the Frenchman! End-to-end-to-end.

  13. YELLOW CARD

    Every foul is a yellow card now, as Real right-back Dani Carvajal is carded for clipping Neymar. Good run down the left from Neymar, Barca can load up the big men again...

  14. Gareth Bale gets in behind but Bravo beats him to itGetty Images

    Gareth Bale gets in behind straight away but great sweeping up from Barca keeper Claudio Bravo. Real on top at the end of the first half and they've started well too.

  15. KICK-OFF

    Game on!

  16. Here we go, the teams are back out. Same pace again please.

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    Ramesh Kumar: Ramos and Pepe need to be careful with their challenges in second half against dive prone Barca players and a card prone referee.

    Phil Hakim: Gareth Bale is extremely peripheral in almost all of Real's build up play but you always fancy him to score.

    Michael Collins: Real finding acres of space, surely they must score more in second half.

  18. Gareth Bale has assisted nine goals for Cristiano Ronaldo in under two seasons playing together in La Liga - but none of them have come since October.

    Time for a change?

    Ronaldo, by the way, has only assisted two for Bale.

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    Matt L: No coincidence that most of the Prem players mentioned on #bbceurofooty have been ones bought from Spain or at the very least developed there...