3 Reasons why this El Clasico wasn't as 'classic' as previous ones

#1 No Ronaldo - no glimpse of typical, aggressive and classical Real Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo left Real Madrid in the preceding Summer transfer window

Cristiano Ronaldo's absence due to his historic summer move to Juventus had an immensely negative impact of Los Blanco's aggression and overall performance. The absence of his services was pretty much tangible.

On the other hand, surprisingly, Barcelona cruised in the absence of Lionel Messi as they produced a 5-star performance.

An attribute of aggression, decisiveness has been transmitted to Cristiano Ronaldo by those great players in Galactico. Ronaldo has been a source of quality, aggression, and decisiveness for Real Madrid in the recent past and due to his unavailability against Barcelona after almost a decade, Whites' belligerence was gone.

Yesterday's El Clasico delivered a pure entertainment but somehow failed to produce it uniqueness to some extent which we have been witnessing from years. The embarrassing 1-5 loss means heavy speculation mounts around Spanish manager Julen Lopegui and it ultimately could lose him his place as a Real Madrid manager.