Unsung Rakitic a constant in changing times for El Clasico

The weight of transition pulls increasingly heavily on Real Madrid and Barcelona’s historic rivalry nowadays and it was painfully felt after an hour of the Blaugrana’s 1-0 win at the Santiago Bernabeu. Gareth Bale was the team-news headline on Saturday, restored to the Madrid XI after his own acts of goalscoring belligerence and Los Blancos’ […]