El Clasico: Kylian Mbappe not in Real Madrid squad to face Barcelona

French guardant to miss the important fixture contempt grooming with teammates connected Friday pursuing his betterment from injury.

Kylian Mbappe volition miss Real Madrid’s important La Liga fixture against Barcelona contempt grooming for El Clasico with his teammates earlier the travel to the Catalan capital.

The league’s starring extremity scorer was near retired of the Real Madrid squad named for Sunday night’s crippled astatine the Camp Nou stadium successful Barcelona, wherever the location squad tin beryllium crowned Spanish champions with a triumph implicit their archrivals.

Images from Real Madrid’s location grooming league connected Saturday, which showed Mbappe participating successful drills, indicated that the French guardant had recovered from a hamstring wounded helium suffered 2 weeks ago, but his sanction was a important lack from the 21-man squad named connected societal media.

Mbappe attended a squad grooming league earlier the travel to Barcelona [Oscar Del Pozo/ AFP]

Brazilian prima Vinicius Jr volition pb the guardant enactment for Los Blancos and volition beryllium supported by Brahim Diaz and Gonzalo Torres.

Meanwhile, Aurelien Tchouameni was listed among the midfielders contempt a caller grooming crushed clash with teammate Federico Valverde that outgo some players a good of 500,000 euros ($589,000) each.

Barcelona spell into the lucifer arsenic favourites not lone to triumph the lucifer but besides to clasp the league title. The Catalan giants bask an 11-point pb implicit their opponents, and a gully would seal their 29th Spanish league triumph with 3 games to spare.

If Barcelona triumph their past 4 league games this season, starting with the conflict against Alvaro Arbeloa’s fracturing Madrid, they volition lucifer the all-time league grounds of 100 points.

Mbappe, a uncertainty for El Clasico due to the fact that of a hamstring injury, has been heavily criticised by fans after helium went connected vacation to Sardinia during his betterment process.

It prompted manager Arbeloa to bespeak that helium wanted much dedication from his players.

“We didn’t physique Real Madrid with players who play successful tuxedos, but with players who decorativeness matches with shirts afloat of sweat and mud, done effort and sacrifice,” said Arbeloa aft Madrid bushed Espanyol without Mbappe, to hold Barca’s rubric celebrations.

Mbappe is expected to beryllium afloat acceptable for France’s World Cup 2026 campaign successful the United States, Canada and Mexico successful June and July.

The French, who were defeated finalists astatine Qatar 2022, unfastened their tourney against Senegal connected June 16 earlier facing Iraq and Norway successful the radical stage.

Mbappe is besides expected to beryllium acceptable for the friendlies against the Ivory Coast and Northern Ireland connected June 4 and 8, respectively.