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Saturday's game should give Barcelona's teenage Argentine Lionel Messi the chance to pit his skills against Real Madrid's Brazilian wizard Robinho.
Barcelona moved two points clear at the top of the table on Saturday after notching a 1-0 win at home to Real Sociedad while title challengers Sevilla beat Real Madrid 2-1.
A Thierry Henry special and two trademark free kicks from Ronaldinho earned Barcelona a 3-0 win at home to Real Betis that put them within a point of leaders Real Madrid at the top of the Primera Liga on Sunday.
Ronaldinho's goal gave Barca a 1-0 win at home to relegation-threatened Cadiz.
"There are lots of great players in circulation, but nobody is worth as much as him," Ancelotti was quoted as saying in Corriere dello Sport on Thursday.
Although Ronaldinho scored a hat-trick in Barcelona's 4-1 victory over Udinese, it was the club's Argentine youngster who attracted the biggest cheer of the night.
The former world champions extended their unbeaten run to four matches under new coach Dunga, who replaced Carlos Alberto Parreira after their disappointing campaign in Germany.
A solo goal by the Brazilian striker and some outstanding goalkeeping from Iker Casillas earned Real Madrid a 1-1 draw with leaders Barcelona in the Spanish league.
Barcelona eased to a 3-0 win over Racing Santander to keep pace with leaders Sevilla in the Primera Liga.
Ludovic Giuly gave league champions Barcelona a 1-0 victory over the King's Cup winners in the Spanish Super Cup.
The Chelsea midfielder was voted by the fans as England's Player of the Year for the second successive year.
Lionel Messi may lack a World Cup for Argentina but his 10 years with Barcelona have seen him rewrite the history books and become symbolic with the club's golden era.
A roundup of weekend action in the main European leagues.\n
Ronaldinho says not having scored a goal in Germany doesn't bother him.\n
Barcelona surrendered lead to arch-rivals Real Madrid after they were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Real Betis.
Barcelona beat AC Milan on a 1-0 aggregate, after the second leg semi-final ended goalless.
Ludovic Giuly's goal earned the Spanish giants a 1-0 win over AC Milan in their semi-final first leg at the San Siro stadium.
Henrik Larsson and Samuel Eto'o scored in Barcelona's 2-0 win at Real Sociedad
Lionel Messi completed a hat-trick to earn 10-man Barcelona a 3-3 home draw with Real Madrid.
The Spanish champions went through on 3-2 aggregate after the second leg pre-quarter-final ended 1-1. Juventus and Villarreal also made it to the quarter-finals.
Ronaldinho and Henrik Larsson scored in a 2-0 win over Real Zaragoza and extended Barcelona's lead to nine points at the top of the Primera Liga.
Barcelona were knocked out of the King's Cup after Zaragoza registered a 5-4 aggregate victory.
The World champions beat the host nation 3-2 to enter the Confederations Cup final.
Twice in arrears the Asian giants rallied to hold the World champions 2-2 in the Confederations Cup.
Little more than a year has gone by since Tite took over as coach of a Brazil side still reeling from embarrassing exits in the World Cup and Copa America but in that short time he has transformed the team into favourites for Russia 2018.
A team led by Brazilian Ronaldinho will face a side captained by Andriy Shevchenko in the match to raise money for victims of the Asian tsunami.
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