Many will be looking forward to it because Barcelona and Real Madrid are in their best form but Barcelona looks more consistent compared to their arch rivals and of course Real Madrid will find it difficult to stop Barcelona even though Real Madrid has Mbappe, Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham it does not at all dampen the mentality of Barcelona players especially Real Madrid lost one of their mainstay defenders so this will be an advantage for Barcelona to be able to penetrate Real Madrid's defense, Carvajal is a defender who is quite strong in the back line his absence will certainly have a little effect on Real Madrid's defense especially since Barcelona's attack line looks more active this season.
Each team has losses, both teams have problems with their main goalkeepers, but it seems that Courtois should recover much faster. It is also unclear how quickly Vinicius will be able to return, and for Real Madrid's attack this is too big a loss, although they still have many attacking players. If we compare the form of the teams, I would now give preference to Barcelona, at the moment it seems to me that they are playing better.
Maybe this is the impact of the new Champions League format, all teams have to play many matches which results in many injured players in each team. Real Madrid and Barcelona both have many injured core players and in the next two weeks they will face Elclasico of course in this match they do not want to lose points because we know that usually winning in El Clasico will affect the team's confidence in the next match.
If I look at Elclsico later, Real Madrid has a weakness in defense and Barcelona has a weakness in midfield. Both teams have their own weaknesses and El Clasico can be won by the team that can take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses, although El Clasico will be played at Barcelona's home ground but it will not affect Real Madrid because every El Clasico always does not have the advantage of the opponent's home ground because in reality every El Clasico is always won by the team that can take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses and does not make many mistakes.
Interestingly, before El Clasico starts both teams will face teams from the Bundesliga first in the Champions League. Real Madrid will face Dortmund and Barcelona will face Bayern Munich.