Karim Benzema: rare start for Madrid / Fotosports.com
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT / Sports Features Communications
BARCELONA, Nov 29: Some 13 World Cup-winners and two World Players of the Year faced up as Barcelona hosted Real Madrid in a Clasico which promised to be even more dramatic than usual. The dual between the champions and leaders of La Liga also matched up two of the game's most outstanding coaches in Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho. Madrid were missing injured Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain; Frenchman Karim Benzema stepped in for only his second start of the campaign.
