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Neymar lights up the Clasico to add insult to Bale's injury

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  Between the two of them they cost more than €157 million this summer, but any casual observer tuning into Barcelona’s clash with Real Madrid on Saturday would have been forgiven for thinking Gareth Bale had left Tottenham on a free and Neymar’s switch from Santos had accounted for the lot. The Brazilian scored the opening goal of Barca’s 2-1  Clasico  win at Camp Nou and it was no more than he deserved. A constant threat up against Madrid full-back Dani Carvajal, the €57.1m signing could not have wished for a better debut in the Spanish season’s main event. For so much of the summer and the embryonic league campaign there have been questions asked of Neymar’s compatibility with Lionel Messi in the  Blaugrana ’s forward line, yet with the Argentine starting from the right-hand side it appeared that his newest team-mate was liberated by the chance to get at one half of Madrid’s defence. FROM OUR COMMENTARY 19' THE CATALANS LEAD THE CLASICO!!! Neymar cut

Platini wants 40-country World Cup, Starting from 2018 in Russia.

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The Frenchman has responded to Fifa president Sepp Blatter's recent comments, agreeing that more African and Asian teams should play in the competition Uefa president Michel Platini has suggested that the World Cup should be expanded to 40 teams to include more Asian and African representatives, starting from 2018 in Russia. Sepp Blatter has already stated that he wants more non-European teams at the World Cup and Platini agrees with the Fifa chief that it would be fruitful to have more African and Asian sides at the finals, although feels the best solution would be to expand the competition rather than to take away places from Europe. "I totally agree with Sepp Blatter that we need more African and Asian teams. It would be good for everybody," Platini told The Times . "But instead of taking away some European spots, we have to expand to 40 teams. "For example, we can add two African, two Asian, two American, one