La Liga. Copa del Rey. UEFA Champions League semi-final, legs one and two.
Over the next 17 days, Real Madrid and Barcelona will face off four times in the aforementioned three competitions, an epic stretch that is guaranteed to get every football fan excited.
But will our excitement be rewarded?
This season's first edition of "El Clásico" came about with great fanfare and huge hype last November. Everyone was looking forward to the battle of the two giant clubs led by modern-day footballing gods.
The blogosphere nearly ran out of superlatives to adorn upon that first November league meeting, with all and sundry comparing the likes of Messi and Ronaldo to legends gone by like Puskas and Cruijff.
Then the game happened.
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Like many overhyped matches before it, November's El Clásico failed to live up to its billing.
Not because the game was lackluster and tepid, mind you, but rather because one team was just overwhelmingly better than the other.
For all the hype of the "two great teams clashing" in last November's match, there was only really one great team on the pitch -- and that team happened to run into the all-world side known as FC Barcelona circa 2010-11.
It was nearly painful to watch as Real Madrid looked like mere mortals trying to contend with the seemingly omnipotent beings that seem to make up this current edition of the Blaugrana.
Why then, five months on, would these four rapid-fire Clásicos matter when the two sides are still made up of nearly the exact same players that featured in that 5-0 rout back in November?
Well, the circumstances surrounding each game are different.
Today, we've got the league Clásico, the direct rematch from that late fall slaughter. This will be Real's first chance to cleanse that embarrassing chapter from their palates, and get themselves back into contention for a La Liga title that Barcelona has a stranglehold over.
With Barcelona heading into the match with an eight-point edge in the standings, today's objective for Real Madrid is simple: Win at the Bernabeu, or forget about the league.
On Wednesday, the two teams meet again for the Copa del Rey. Played in Valencia, that match will be the sole Clásico to be held on neutral ground this season, nullifying both sides' substantial home field advantage.
For Barca, the Copa del Rey would be another trophy en route to the league title (they'll still be heavily favoured even if they lose today), and another yet thing they can lord over the heads of Madrid and their fans.
For Real, the Copa del Rey represents the first real opportunity to steal something from their rivals - and perhaps more importantly, the opportunity to swing the momentum heading into the first Champions League fixture a week later.
A Copa del Rey victory by Real Madrid would indicate that Barcelona is not infallible, something that may be worth more to Madrid by the end of the season than the King's Cup Trophy itself.
Finally, the two sides will meet April 27 and May 3 in the Champions League, with the first leg in Madrid. On paper, a two-legged series should favour Barcelona quite heavily. as they could play their brand of patient, lethal football and simply wait for Real to open things up.
But it all depends on how the previous two matches go. If Barcelona does the expected and wins both the league match and Copa del Rey final going away, then it should be expected that the two Champions League games will fall in line.
But if Madrid can nick one, especially the Cup final, then all bets are off.