The race between Barcelona and Real Madrid for the top of the Spanish Football League reaches an important and exciting station when the two teams meet tomorrow, Sunday, at the “Camp Nou” stadium in Barcelona, at the end of the 26th round matches of the competition.
Barcelona leads the competition table with 65 points from 25 matches, with a difference of 9 points against Real Madrid, which means that beating Real Madrid in tomorrow’s match will bring Barcelona a new and big step closer to regaining the local title, which was dominated by the poles of the Spanish capital. Real and Atletico Madrid, in the past three seasons.
With Barcelona’s early exit from the European League competition, the team’s focus has become on the league and cup championships in Spain, but the team needs to pass Real Madrid’s hurdle in each of the two tournaments to approach the podium.
The two teams meet tomorrow, to be the fourth match out of 5 confrontations between the two teams in the current season; Where Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 in their first league match this season last October, then Barcelona beat Real Madrid 3-1 in the Spanish Super Cup final in mid-January.
Just two weeks ago, the two teams met at Real Madrid in the first leg of the King’s Cup semi-finals, and Barcelona won 1-0 to give him the advantage before the second leg at home on April 5.
Despite his early exit from the European Championship, Barcelona’s statistics in the Spanish League this season indicate a clear superiority that makes him a strong candidate to overcome Real Madrid’s hurdle and approach the podium.
During the 25 matches the team has played in the competition so far, Barcelona has won 21 matches, lost only two matches and tied in two matches as well, and the team has conceded only 8 times compared to 19 goals conceded by Real Madrid, who outperforms Barcelona by a meager margin in the offensive aspect, where he scored 50 goals compared to 47 goals for Barcelona.
Real Madrid is going into the match with high spirits after beating Liverpool 1-0 in the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 and qualifying for the quarter-finals by winning 6-2 on aggregate.
Real Madrid is looking forward to beating Barcelona again in the league, to revive its hopes of competition by reducing the difference to 6 points.
