El Clasico: Real Madrid vs. Barcelona TACTICAL PREVIEW like you’ve never seen

This weekend the world will be treated to the world’s best two football teams going head to head.

The game’s most skillful players will kick the ball around for 90ish minutes, maybe scoring some brilliant goals, picking some beautiful passes, making astounding runs, getting all hot and sweaty like, and just genuinely showcasing the absolute pinnacle of human athletic achievement, using their bodies to do things most of us can only dream of or, if we’re lucky, simulate electronically on FIFA 12/Pro Evolution.

So naturally, with this grand celebration of life in glorious action at hand, people want to know:

WHAT WILL THE TEAM FORMATIONS LOOK LIKE ON A FUCKING CHALKBOARD?????????????????

Well folks, as a European Football Expert™ I’m here to tell you.

Barcelona’s coach Pep Guardiola will obviously want to go with his strongest lineup of his best players and employ the most dangerous, innovative, creative formation he can muster that bast harnesses the maximum playing potential of his all his players.

Barcelona’s formation then will likely closely resemble something not unlike this:

Indubitably Real Madrid’s Jose Mourinho will want to counter the blaugrana assault by also playing his best players while TACTICALLY outsmarting and out-strategizing his cule rivals.

Thus Real Madrid are in all probability going to deploy themselves in the game in such manner as would be represented below:

And there you have it. The El Clasico TACTICAL PREVIEW like you’ve never seen it before.

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