Ten-man Barcelona has earned a 2-2 draw against Real Madrid at Camp Nou to keep their unbeaten La Liga run intact on Sunday.
Barca were pegged back in the first half before having Sergio Roberto sent off, and it was a similar story in the second as Gareth Bale struck to cancel out Lionel Messi’s latest El Clasico goal.
Barca started the better, slipping through Luis Suarez who was denied by an impressive Raphael Varane block, before the Uruguayan striker volleyed home from the next attack after Sergi Roberto picked him out perfectly from eight yards.
Madrid had been second best up until that point and had struggled to get the ball forward, but that all changed once levelling up through a Cristiano Ronaldo goal on the counter.
Madrid, without star man Ronaldo for the second half, were behind within seven minutes of the restart as Messi took the ball past two men and tucked it out of Navas’s reach, moments after Marco Asensio sent a shot right at Ter Stegen.
Messi was denied a second goal by a smart Keylor Navas stop 20 minutes from time, and that would prove a big moment as Gareth Bale put enough spin on his first-time shot from the edge of the area to help it past Ter Stegen.
Perhaps due to tiredness, Barca had dropped deep in the build-up to Bale second-ever El Clasico goal and Madrid were looking the more likely to win the contest as the last 15 minutes arrived.
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