However, both Madrid and Barcelona will be trying their best to win the Supercopa final. More importantly, Hansi Flick is desperate to win his first title with Barcelona. And that's why I don't think Real Madrid will easily win against Barcelona. I know Madrid are in good form, but Barcelona are not a weak team either. We must not forget that.
When Messi and Ronaldo played for these two teams, there was the most competition, but currently Mbappe and Lamine Yamal are playing for these two teams. They are also very high quality players but they cannot play like Messi and Ronaldo. So I think that the current El Clasico match will be exciting but not as exciting as it used to be.
Those were very special times because the two players were the two best of their generation and maybe top 5 of all time in the history football. Having them play for the best clubs at the same time in the same league was extraordinarily lucky for the fans. This is not the standard. You often have two world best players, but then they play in different leagues.
If we take Lewandowski and Mbappe as an example, these two could never get close to the level of excitement that the duel between Messi and Ronaldo has created. It was from another planet.
But at least the clasico isn#t as boring as two years ago. There is some more action these days, but still not as great and it will probably never be that great again in our lifetimes. In one season I think Ronaldo and Messi scored 46 goals and 50 goals respectively.