Real Madrid vs Barcelona

Barcelona 0-0 Real Madrid

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And if you're waiting for me to nominate a player of the half...

97.3% - Luka Modrić completed 36 of his 37 passes in the first half of #ElClásico, more than any other player. Compass. pic.twitter.com/lKzlswjaBw
— OptaJose (@OptaJose) December 3, 2016

4:13PM

Half-time

Predictably most of the half-time discussion will surround whether the referee should have given an early penalty to Real Madrid, after Javier Mascherano hauled down Lucas Vazquez in the box.

Was it a clear-cut decision for Carlos Clos Gomez? Absolutely not, although perhaps it would have been given had the foul not been made but three minutes into one of the biggest games of the season.
Ronaldo made a quiet start to the game but grew more influential as the match went on, while at the other end of the pitch Messi, Suarez and Neymar continue to struggle for form:

45 mins

And that's half-time! A couple of half-decent penalty shouts, a surfeit of fouls and not very many shots at all. Real Madrid will be the far happier of the two teams, containing Barcelona very well at the beginning of the half before ending things well on top, with Ronaldo and Benzema both going reasonably close to breaking the deadlock.

4:04PM

44 mins

Close for Real Madrid! Modric wins the ball in his own half and neatly feeds Isco, who brings it forward and releases Benzema down the left. Like Ronaldo a few moments earlier, he has options in the penalty area but only one thing on his mind, and he shoots low across goal after shaping in from the wing. It's a low shot and is almost turned into the net by Pique, but the ball instead flies wide of the post.
Varane gets up well for the corner, but heads straight at Ter Stegen.

3:59PM

41 mins

Geez, are Barcelona getting desperate. The ball is pinged into the arm of Dani Carvajal at close distance, a fraction inside the penalty area, and the Camp Nou erupts. Carlos Clos Gomez shakes his head. Never a penalty.

3:57PM

39 mins

Another chance for Ronaldo! The 31-year-old is played in by Vazquez at the edge of the box and neatly turns around Mascherano, before toe-poking one towards goal which doesn't trouble Ter Stegen.