There is a little VAR check, who knows why, but the goal stands.

Rodrygo dances as part of his celebration in support of Vinicius and the race debate in Spain this week.

Geoffrey Kondogbia can really hit a football. The Atletico midfielder gets the ball almost 40 yards out and has a crack. It's a really powerful strike that flies just wide. The keeper was worried.

Real are yet to have a shot of any kind. They have a free-kick 40 yards out but play it short.

Atletico go close again from the corner. Joao Felix doesn't get enough power onto a shot in the box though and it's cleared off the line.

It's all Atletico. Koke feeds Yannick Carrasco with a through ball. The Belgian bursts into the box and his shot is blocked by a sliding Dani Carvajal before hitting the side-netting.

Antoine Griezmann, celebrating a surprise start for Atletico Madrid, tries to cross for Joao Felix at the back post but it's just beyond the Portugal forward.

Atletico have started very well indeed, with a ball down the right just beyond Rodrigo de Paul. Real have barely had an attack.

Real Madrid’s Carlo Ancelotti has lost four of his six meetings as a manager with Diego Simeone in La Liga. Luciano Spalleti in Serie A (nine defeats from 20 games) is the only manager to beat him more times.

Atletico have the first chance of the game as defender Felipe heads onto the roof of the net from Koke's free-kick.

Another clash, this time Atletico's Koke fouling Federico Valverde.

This is Diego Simeone's 408th match as Atletico boss, a club record - beating Luis Aragones' 407.

An early flash point as Dani Carvajal fouls Joao Felix - and Atleti manager Diego Simeone comes on to get involved. It wasn't a bad foul or anything.

We are under way.

1. Barcelona - P6... 16pts
2. Real Madrid - P5... 15pts
3. Real Betis - P6... 15pts
4. Athletic Bilbao - P6... 13pts
5. Osasuna - P6... 12pts
6. Villarreal - P6... 11pts
7. Atletico Madrid - P5... 10pts

Two big bits of team news to bring you from Madrid.

Atletico's Antoine Griezmann makes his first start of the season, having come on as a sub in all their other games to avoid activating a purchase clause in his loan deal from Barcelona.

And Real goal king Karim Benzema misses out through injury.

There were reports of racist chants aimed at Real's Vinicius Jr from Atletico fans outside the ground before kick-off.

Some of the talk leading up to this game was about criticism of Vinicius' dancing celebrations - and whether the criticism was racist.

Hello and welcome to live text commentary of the Madrid derby as the 2021 champions face the holders.