The sensational case of brutal murder of Bundeli folk song singer Ladkunwar Kushwaha alias Lovely in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh has created a stir in the entire area. Where, the burnt body of the singer was found lying in a dry drain near the fields. The condition of the dead body was so horrific that people got goosebumps after seeing it. It is being told that the body was badly burnt and the hands and legs were separated from the body and were found lying nearby in a burnt state. As soon as the information about the incident was received, the police reached the spot and surrounded the entire area and started investigation.
Attempt to burn the dead body after murder
Police have also found many important evidences from the incident site. Liquor bottles, beer cans, packets of snacks, burnt mobile phone, a piece of saree and a scarf have been recovered near the field. Looking at these things, it is suspected that the accused were having a liquor party there before the incident. Police suspect that after the murder, an attempt was made to erase the identity by burning the dead body.
According to family members, on the night of the incident, someone had called Lovely from home. After this she did not return throughout the night. The family members searched for him extensively, but no trace of him was found. The next morning, there was an uproar in the family when his burnt body was found in a dry drain near the fields. The family members are in distress and have demanded immediate arrest of the accused.
At present, the police is busy searching for the accused on the basis of call details and evidence found from the spot. The body has been sent for post-mortem and the entire matter is being thoroughly investigated. Police say that the incident will be revealed soon.
The reason India is being passed over is partly structural.
Foreign Portfolio Investors‘ share of Indian equities has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 14 years, even as domestic institutions have quietly overtaken them as the larger stakeholder in India’s stock market — a structural shift playing out against the backdrop of another week of sustained foreign selling.
According to NSDL data, FPIs were net sellers in Indian equities for four of the five trading sessions this week ended May 8, 2026. Monday, May 4, saw net equity outflows of ₹8,035.69 crore through stock exchanges. Tuesday offered a brief respite, with FPIs turning net buyers to the tune of ₹2,969.02 crore — the only session this week where they were on the buying side. Selling resumed on Wednesday with outflows of ₹3,399.03 crore, followed by the steepest single-day selling of the week on Thursday at ₹5,697.61 crore. By Friday, May 8, the pace had nearly halted, with net equity outflows through exchanges narrowing sharply to just ₹69.31 crore, as gross purchases of ₹18,514.38 crore nearly matched gross sales of ₹18,583.69 crore.
On an aggregate basis — combining stock exchange and primary market routes — FPI equity outflows for the week stood at ₹14,207.20 crore.
FPI holdings drop, DIIs rise
The weekly numbers are part of a larger, more consequential story. According to JM Financials’ monthly tracker for April 2026, FPI ownership of Indian equities now stands at 14.7 per cent — its lowest since June 2012 — down from 19.9 per cent a decade ago. Meanwhile, Domestic Institutional Investors have risen to hold 18.9 per cent of Indian equities, surpassing FPI holdings for the first time since December 2024 and continuing to widen that gap.
Dr VK Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist at Geojit Investments Limited, put the year-to-date picture in perspective. “This takes the total FPI sell figure through exchanges in 2026, so far, to ₹2,18,540 crore,” he said, while noting that primary market investment by FPIs has held up, with “total investment of ₹12,340 crore, so far, this year.”
N ArunaGiri, CEO of TrustLine Holdings, flagged that India is losing out on emerging market allocations to peers. “At a time when Korea received nearly $4 billion and Taiwan around $5.5 billion in flows, India is still not getting its due share of emerging market allocations. This clearly indicates that FIIs currently do not find India as attractive from an allocation perspective,” he said. The consequence, he noted, has been visible in market structure: “Large caps have relatively underperformed, while strong domestic flows have continued to support the SMID segment.”
Structural diversions
The reason India is being passed over is partly structural. Vijayakumar pointed to the global technology rally as a key factor diverting flows. “The impressive earnings growth expected in markets like South Korea and Taiwan this year, thanks to the AI boom, is attracting FPI flows into these markets in a big way,” he said, adding that “currency depreciation and concerns surrounding earnings growth in India have been important factors driving FPI flows out of India this year.”
Not all FPI activity this week was selling. Vijayakumar noted that even amid the broader exodus, “FPIs have been investing in certain sectors like power, construction and capital goods,” and have shown “preference for mid and selectively for small cap stocks which have high growth potential and are delivering good results.”
ArunaGiri cautioned that a meaningful market recovery in large caps would need a change in foreign investor behaviour. “As long as FIIs do not meaningfully increase India allocations, the market is likely to remain highly stock-specific, driven by earnings visibility and bottom-up opportunities rather than momentum rally led by large caps,” he said.
Vladimir Putin has declared Russia will always be victorious as he oversaw a scaled-back Victory Day parade on Red Square held under heavy security amid mounting fears of Ukrainian attacks and growing public fatigue with the war.
Speaking to the crowd, the Russian leader invoked the sacrifices of the second world war to rally support for his soldiers fighting in the war in Ukraine. “The great feat of the generation of victors inspires the warriors carrying out the tasks of the special military operation today,” he said, using the Kremlin’s preferred euphemism for his invasion of Ukraine.
“They stand against an aggressive force armed and supported by the entire Nato bloc. And despite this, our heroes move forward. Victory has always been and will always be ours.”
Despite the confident rhetoric, this year’s parade laid bare a moment of acute weakness for the Russian president.
Moscow on Saturday was blanketed in heavy security, with internet services switched off across the city as Ukraine continued to rattle the Kremlin with long-range drone and missile strikes – forcing organisers to strip the event of its usual pageantry.
Vladimir Putin and the South Ossetian president, Alan Gagloev, toast one another during a reception at the Kremlin. Photograph: Grigory Sysoev/Kremlin/EPA
It was not until the final hours that it became clear Ukraine would not disrupt the proceedings. On the eve of the parade, the US president, Donald Trump, announced Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a three-day ceasefire and prisoner exchange.
The customary display of missiles and armoured vehicles, a fixture of the parade since Putin introduced military hardware in 2017, was absent entirely. In its place, guests were shown a video showcasing Russia’s drone capabilities and nuclear arsenal.
The audience, which included a small delegation of foreign leaders from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, also watched as a column of North Korean soldiers marched across the square. North Korea has emerged as one of Russia’s closest allies in recent years, with its troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine.
The parade lasted about 45 minutes, roughly half the length of previous years.
“It was a modest parade,” wrote the pro-Kremlin commentator Sergei Markov on Telegram, adding: “There are still enormous challenges ahead.”
Russian authorities openly acknowledged that the security measures were designed specifically to protect Putin, an admission that underscored just how dramatically the calculus of a war Russia once expected to win in weeks has since shifted.
Earlier in the week, Putin pressed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a ceasefire to coincide with the parade. Ukraine initially dismissed the proposal as a cynical ploy to shield the celebrations from drone attacks.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would ‘permit’ Russia to hold the Victory Day event out of deference to a request from the US president. Photograph: President Of Ukraine/APAImages/Shutterstock
Zelenskyy’s response came on Friday night in the form of a decree laced with sardonic wit: Ukraine would, he announced, “permit” Russia to hold the event, by choosing not to attack it, out of deference to a request from the US president. The ceasefire is set to hold until 11 May.
This year’s Victory Day parade was the first to be held since Russia’s war on Ukraine has outlasted the Soviet Union’s entire campaign against Nazi Germany. Putin has repeatedly sought to draw a direct line between the two wars, falsely casting his invasion as a continuation of the struggle against nazism.
Tellingly on Saturday, he was seated not beside veterans of the second world war as in previous years, but flanked by soldiers who had fought in Ukraine.
With no victory in sight and no timeline for an end to the current war, the mood inside Russia is souring. Mass internet blackouts in the weeks before the parade, imposed by security services and justified as necessary precautions, have fuelled public anger and dragged on Putin’s approval ratings.
Russian soldiers, who were involved in the military campaign in Ukraine, march in a military parade on Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow. Photograph: Dmitry Astakhov/Reuters
After years of war-fuelled growth, driven largely by mass military spending, the Russian economy is now showing signs of strain. Growth has slowed sharply, with rising inflation squeezing ordinary Russians and businesses alike, while the budget deficit climbs to record highs.
On the battlefield, the picture is similarly grinding. Russian troops are near a standstill, with neither side appearing close to a breakthrough.
Advances have slowed in recent months, both armies showing signs of exhaustion and sustaining heavy casualties, while continuing to strike each other’s energy infrastructure.
Yet there is little sign that any of this is pushing Putin toward compromise.
The Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian media on Thursday that Moscow saw no basis for a new round of trilateral talks with Ukraine and the US until Ukrainian forces withdrew from the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine – a condition Kyiv has flatly rejected. Ukraine continues to hold several key cities and fortified positions in Donetsk, defended at the cost of tens of thousands of lives.
Our culture has sold women one of the greatest lies of all time: abortion is the best and only option. Rather than empowering women to become mothers, our society has convinced her that an abortion is a “quick and easy fix” to her problems. But in reality, abortion robs women of one of the greatest joys that we celebrate on Mother’s Day.
As a mom to three young boys, my heart breaks for the woman struggling to make ends meet. It breaks for the woman who feels the mounting pressure to support her children alone. But most of all, my heartbreaks for the woman who walked into Planned Parenthood thinking an abortion would be part of the solution to her problems.
Human Coalition and Planned Parenthood see the same abortion-seeking woman, and less than one in four of those moms express confidence in her decision to abort. In fact, the majority would prefer to parent if their circumstances were different.
Read that again: most women walking into abortion facilities aren’t certain they want an abortion. They’re overwhelmed and believe they are out of options. The typical abortion-seeking woman likely knows the value of motherhood because she already has other children. In her current pregnancy, what she needs isn’t an abortion; it’s a solution to the barriers that keep her from seeing the path toward life for her baby. When we remove barriers, we show women that motherhood is possible.
Housing Instability
One of the main factors in a mother’s life decision is her housing circumstances. Take “Maria” for example. She had just lost everything when she found out she was pregnant. Evicted from her apartment and without a stable home, Maria was forced to send her teenage son to live with her mom in another state. During the early weeks of her pregnancy, she bounced around from motels to her car and even emergency shelters. The father of her baby was not involved, which left her to shoulder the responsibility of providing for her and her baby alone.
In a 2023 study, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reported that three-quarters of abortion clients were living with incomes that were 200% below the federal poverty line. Behind these numbers are real moms like Maria who face overcrowded living conditions, eviction, and frequent moves, which are an added stress. Maria’s story highlights the underlying need for these moms. They deserve to know about the organizations that will stand in the gap and help them find housing solutions that bring stability to the family unit. But too often, they only know about Planned Parenthood.
Childcare & Employment Challenges
Adding to their housing worries is a mother’s employment status. For single moms, flexibility can go a long way.
A 2026 Stanford-led study found that the number of children a woman has in a given period (realized fertility) was 14% higher when both partners worked from home at least one day per week compared to couples where neither did. Researchers estimate remote work could account for roughly 8.1% of U.S. births — approximately 291,000 babies per year. The takeaway? When mothers have flexibility over where and when they work, they’re more likely to have children, and more of them.
I can speak to this personally. Because I work with flexible hours, I’m the one dropping my boys off at school in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon. I’m present. And beyond workplace flexibility, my family has been blessed by something deeper: community. A young woman from our church comes over to care for my boys twice a week, and homeschooled girls in our parish serve as mothers’ helpers to fill in gaps during the day. My mother-in-law lives nearby and steps in when we need her. None of that required a government subsidy. It required a village. The kind that used to be the norm in American life, and that we should be actively rebuilding.
My heart goes out to every mother struggling to find stable, reliable care for her children. I empathize deeply with moms who feel torn between being present for their children and keeping the lights on. That tension is real. And it deserves real solutions, not a culture that hands her an abortion referral and calls it compassion.
Most importantly, every mother deserves compassionate, life-affirming care.
Among the most vulnerable women in our nation are those living in rural areas with limited access to healthcare. Women who live in rural areas are reported to have higher rates of pregnancy-related complications, compared to U.S. averages.
Luckily, pro-life organizations are making inroads to serve more of these moms. In our digital age, we can quickly connect with moms and deliver the care they deserve.
When a woman calls Human Coalition, she is immediately connected to a nurse who provides care and guidance in a moment of panic and uncertainty. It’s through these calls that women can ask questions, voice concerns, and feel encouraged through her pregnancy journey.
Abortion-seeking women have been sold a lie for decades. They’ve been told that a procedure or pill will make life easier and improve her circumstances. The truth is that abortion inflicts deep pain (mentally, physically and emotionally) while failing to address the very circumstances that make women feel like abortion is the only option.
If we are going to empower women to choose life, it starts with meeting women where they are and walking alongside them as they take on one of the most important titles of all: Mom.
Clare Ath is the senior policy analyst at Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life organizations in the nation, which operates a network of telecare and brick-and-mortar women’s care clinics across the country.
Keir Starmer has brought in Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman as advisersin a move to ease the mounting pressure on the prime minister to resign after the disastrous election results for Labour.
Brown, the former prime minister and long-serving chancellor under Tony Blair, has been made Starmer’s envoy on global finance, with a brief to advise on financial partnerships to help with defence-related investments, particularly with Europe.
Harman, who was Labour’s deputy leader under Brown, will be the prime minister’s adviser on women and girls, focusing on tackling violence and improving economic opportunities.
While the roles are part-time and unpaid, there is deliberate symbolism in Starmer gathering Labour heavyweights around him as he battles to save his job, particularly with the optics of Brown being pictured with him at Downing Street on Saturday morning.
Harriet Harman was Labour’s deputy leader under Gordon Brown. Photograph: International Pool/PA
With the bulk of the votes now counted from Thursday’s series of elections, Labour lost more than 1,400 councillors across England, shedding support to Reform UK and the Greens in traditional heartlands.
While none of Starmer’s cabinet have yet moved, other Labour MPs have called on him to set a date to hand over the leadership, including Clive Betts, the long-serving Sheffield South East MP, and Debbie Abrahams, for Oldham East and Saddleworth.
Abrahams told the BBC on Saturday morning she hoped Starmer would “always put the country first” given the electoral threat from Reform.
“We have to recognise the dangers that we’re in now, that on this trajectory it doesn’t look good.” Asked how quickly he should consider departing, Abrahams said: “I think it is a matter of months.”
In a post on X, Tony Vaughan, the Labour MP for Folkestone who was first elected in 2024, said there “must be an orderly transition of leadership well before the local elections next year”.
He added: “Some say we will look like the Tories if we change leader. But would they have done better if they’d kept Boris in despite partygate? Or kept Truss after she crashed the economy?”
Starmer has been defended by others in Labour, including Harman and Lucy Powell, the party’s deputy leader who told the BBC it was time to end “this incessant speculation” about Starmer’s position.
“What I would say to people is, thinking that setting out some kind of timetable would put to bed issues of leadership, is actually the wrong conclusion here, because all that would do is [set] the starting gun of a, quite honestly, very distracting and ongoing debate about leadership,” Powell said.
Lucy Powell said: ‘We don’t do hospital takeovers in the Labour party.’ Photograph: Gary Roberts Photography/Shutterstock
Powell confirmed that she would want Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor, to be allowed to stand for parliament, but said this should not involve Burnham then challenging Starmer. “We don’t do hospital takeovers in the Labour party. It’s not what we’re about.”
Starmer will try to relaunch his premiership on Monday with a speech expected to set out a call for closer ties with the EU.
Brown’s new role ties in with this in part. A Downing Street statement said the former prime minister would be “tasked with developing new international finance partnerships that can support defence and security-related investment, including measures that underpin the UK’s relationship with Europe”.
A No 10 statement said Harman would “advise the PM on how to galvanise government to deliver for women and girls”.
It added: “She will work with ministers across government to drive an impactful agenda focusing on tackling violence against women and girls, unlocking economic opportunity and improving representation.”
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Jacob Fatu received some support from longtime pro wrestling colleague Royce Keys on “Friday Night SmackDown” ahead of his World Heavyweight Championship match at Backlash on Saturday.
Fatu had just been given words of warning by Jey and Jimmy Uso in the ring when cameras found him wandering in the back. Fatu ran into Keys, who he has a history with being at West Coast Pro and other promotions together before the two made it to WWE.
Jacob Fatu makes his entrance during SmackDown at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 8, 2026.(Kevin Sabitus/WWE)
“I heard what your cousins said out there, forget all that noise,” Keys said. “Failure has never been an option for us, has it? Failure was never an option, even when we didn’t know where our next dollar was coming from. Tell me this – when has Jacob Fatu been afraid of any man that breathes the same air as him?
“Go to Backlash, bring that home. Werewolf your a– up because Jacob Fatu is all gas, no brakes with it. People like us, we’re gonna take everything we want.”
Keys and Fatu go back to the wrestling days in the Bay Area. Keys recently recalled grinding on the indies with Fatu in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, before the two men met, Fatu cut an impassioned promo as he’s set to face Roman Reigns at the premium live event in Tampa, Florida.
The Usos interrupted Fatu’s initial speech and Jey Uso warned Fatu that he was going to lose.
Jey Uso and Jacob Fatu speak in the ring during SmackDown at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 8, 2026.(Rich Freeda/WWE)
“Wanna know the worst part? He’s gonna break you down, emotionally, physically and he gonna do all that to you right in front of your family, Uce,” he said.
Fatu vowed that he wasn’t losing the match.
“This isn’t just a main event. This is for my family. If there’s one thing my family will see me do it’s becoming the WWE world heavyweight champion,” Fatu said, adding a warning of his own to The Usos before he left the ring. “If you think about interfering, I will bring this whole goddamn family tree down.”
Jey Uso said met with Keys before Keys’ match against Tama Toga later in the night and told him he needed to stay in his lane or he was going “catch the eyes of the ‘Tribal Chief.’”
Gunther appeared to be set to sign with the SmackDown roster and Paul Heyman looked to make good on his favor to “The Ring General” during the night. As Gunther met with SmackDown general manager Nick Aldis, Cody Rhodes came out to the ring.
Gunther was upset that Rhodes was taking his screen time. He then left Aldis’ office without signing the SmackDown contract. Rhodes was in the ring addressing Gunther’s attack from last week, as he came from behind and put Rhodes into a sleeper hold.
Cody Rhodes speaks during SmackDown at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla., on May 8, 2026.(Rich Freeda/WWE)
Heyman interrupted Rhodes and said the contract he had in his hand was for an Undisputed WWE Championship match at Clash in Italy, which takes place on May 31. But Heyman said Rhodes would have to deliver the contract himself.
As Heyman left the ring, Gunther came out of the crowd to try to attack Rhodes. However, “The American Nightmare” moved out of the way and delivered his own assault.
Who: Barcelona vs Real Madrid What: La Liga Where: Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain When: Sunday at 9pm (19:00 GMT) How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 16:00 GMT in advance of our live text commentary stream.
With the sting of Champions League disappointment fading but not forgotten, Barcelona are aiming to clinch back-to-back La Liga titles on Sunday when they host bitter rivals Real Madrid.
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Leading by 11 points, Hansi Flick’s side only need a draw in the Clasico to be crowned champions again, although a victory against a Los Blancos team in crisis would keep them on course to make history – and celebrate in style.
If Barcelona win their last four league games this season, starting with the battle against Alvaro Arbeloa’s fracturing Madrid, they will match the all-time league record of 100 points.
That was first achieved by Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid in 2011-12 and followed the season after by Tito Vilanova’s Barca.
Madrid’s season, meanwhile, has unravelled on multiple fronts. Manager Xabi Alonso was sacked midway through the campaign and his successor Arbeloa has been unable to prevent the team sliding towards a second successive year without a trophy.
Real suffered a Champions League quarterfinal exit to Bayern Munich, they lost to Albacete in the last 16 of the Copa del Rey, and now are desperate to postpone Barcelona’s La Liga celebrations by recording a second victory over Flick’s team this season.
But Madrid come into the Clasico in the midst of internal chaos, with Federico Valverde reportedly needing stitches after a training ground bust-up with Aurelien Tchouameni, one of a spate of such incidents.
‘I see the team in great shape’
This is the first Clasico at the partially rebuilt Camp Nou in more than three years.
Only once before in Clasico history has the title actually been decided by the result of the game, as could happen again this Sunday.
Real Madrid won the first of their record 36 leagues by drawing 2-2 against Barcelona in the 1931-32 season to clinch the title.
Barca’s 29 wins so far this season are the most of any side at this point, and if they win their last four games, they will break the record of 32 victories in a season, shared by the Mourinho and Vilanova sides.
Should Barca beat Madrid and also Real Betis the following weekend, they will become the first team to win all their home matches in a 38-game La Liga season.
“I see the team in great shape, very focused – we’re all really looking forward to playing the Clasico,” said Barca defender Jules Kounde this week.
“We can win La Liga with a draw, but a win would be the best.”
Kounde runs with the ball under pressure from Sergio Carreira of Celta Vigo [Alex Caparros/Getty Images]
Real Madrid fine Tchouameni and Valverde over bust-up
Los Blancos announced on Friday they had fined Aurelien Tchouameni and Federico Valverde 500,000 euros ($588,000) each after a training ground clash that left the latter needing hospital treatment.
The club did not impose any sporting sanctions on the two players, saying in a statement that the fine “thereby concludes the internal procedures” launched against them.
Madrid said both players “expressed their complete remorse for what happened and apologised to each other” while taking part in a club investigation.
Uruguay midfielder Valverde sought to downplay the severity of the altercation with the France midfielder.
“The strain of the competition and frustration caused the situation to escalate,” Valverde wrote on social media, expressing regret at the media coverage of the incident.
“I accidentally hit a table during the argument, causing a small cut on my forehead that required a routine visit to the hospital,” he said. “At no point did my teammate hit me, and I didn’t hit him either.”
Valverde, left, and Tchouameni in a combination photo [AFP]
Bust-up latest in series of incidents
It follows another reported issue between defenders Antonio Rudiger and Alvaro Carreras two weeks ago, which the latter said had been dealt with.
On another occasion, veteran right-back Dani Carvajal, frustrated at his own lack of minutes, appeared to mock Trent Alexander-Arnold’s perceived lack of defensive work ethic.
Mbappe, a doubt for the Clasico because of a hamstring injury, has been heavily criticised by fans after he went on holiday to Sardinia during his recovery process.
Even coach Arbeloa, who has treated his superstars with kid gloves, indicated he wanted more dedication.
“We didn’t build Real Madrid with players who play in tuxedos, but with players who finish matches with shirts full of sweat and mud, through effort and sacrifice,” said Arbeloa after Madrid beat Espanyol without Mbappe, to delay Barca’s title celebrations.
Exacerbating the situation, President Florentino Perez is weighing up a dramatic managerial twist, with former coach Jose Mourinho linked with a return to the Santiago Bernabeu.
What happened the last time the two sides met?
Barcelona retained the Spanish Super Cup with a thrilling 3-2 El Clasico win over Real Madrid in Saudi Arabia in January.
Raphinha struck twice for the Catalans, with Robert Lewandowski also on target as they beat Xabi Alonso’s team for a record-extending 16th triumph, despite Frenkie de Jong’s late red card.
What happened in their last La Liga encounter?
Goals from Kylian Mbappe and Jude Bellingham earned Real Madrid a 2-1 victory over Barcelona in a spiky El Clasico in October that snapped a four-match losing streak against their football rivals.
Kylian Mbappe, who later missed a penalty, fired Madrid in front, and although Fermin Lopez levelled for the visitors at the Santiago Bernabeu, Bellingham netted a second goal for the hosts before half-time, which proved decisive.
Bellingham scores past Wojciech Szczesny during the La Liga game on October 26, 2025 in Madrid [Angel Martinez/Getty Images]
Head-to-head
These two clubs have locked horns on 263 occasions; Real Madrid won 107 of those games, Barcelona won 105, while 51 encounters ended as draws.
Last five encounters:
January 11, 2026: Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid (Spanish Super Cup final)
October 26, 2025: Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona (La Liga)
May 11, 2025: Barcelona 4-3 Real Madrid (La Liga)
April 26, 2025: Barcelona 3-2 Real Madrid (Copa del Rey final)
January 12, 2025: Real Madrid 2-5 Barcelona (Spanish Super Cup final)
Barcelona’s team news
Barca are without teenage star Lamine Yamal, who is out for the next few weeks with a hamstring injury.
The squad is otherwise in strong shape, as defender Andreas Christensen is back in training after a long layoff with a knee problem and Brazilian winger Raphinha returned to the bench last weekend after injury, but did not appear in the win at Osasuna that moved Barca to the brink of the title.
Predicted starting XI:
Joan Garcia (goalkeeper); Kounde, Cubarsi, Martin, Cancelo; Eric Garcia, Pedri; Rashford, Gavi, Fermin; Lewandowski
Real Madrid’s team news
Los Blancos are waiting to see if top goalscorer Kylian Mbappe can be involved after his hamstring issue.
Thibaut Courtois has been deemed fit enough to play, in a big boost for Madrid.
Dani Carvajal, Rodrygo, Arda Guler, Ferland Mendy and Eder Militao have all been ruled out with injuries.
Valverde will also miss the game as a result of the head injury he suffered during the altercation with Tchouameni. The club said he would be out for up to two weeks.
Tchouameni took part in training on Friday and could feature at Camp Nou this weekend.
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