The Barcelona team enters the “El Clásico” match against its traditional rival, Real Madrid, displaying all its offensive weapons to win the match and stay alive as a football player.
In turn, Real Madrid is looking forward to taking a big step closer to winning the Spanish League title, when it hosts Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu next Sunday, at the top of the 32nd round of the competition.
Real Madrid leads the standings with 78 points, a full 8 points ahead of runner-up Barcelona, with 7 matches remaining until the end of the league.
Real Madrid enters the match in high spirits after qualifying for the semi-finals of the Champions League, following its victory over Manchester
English City 4-3 on penalties, after they tied the two-legged matches 4-4.
Real Madrid has a historical advantage, as the two teams met in 187 matches in the league, and “Royal” won 78 matches, while Barcelona won 74 matches, and tied in 35, and Real Madrid scored 301 goals, compared to 299 for Barcelona.
The two teams met in 256 matches in all tournaments, with Real Madrid winning 104 matches, Barcelona winning 100, and drawing 52 matches. Real also achieved 5 victories in the last 7 matches in the league, and Barcelona won only two matches.
Real Madrid’s coach, Carlo Ancelotti, knows that winning will not only strengthen the team’s position at the top of the table, but it will also eliminate Barcelona’s hopes of competing for the title, so Ancelotti was keen to stress to his players the necessity of winning this match, in order to get one step closer to achieving the title. And achieved his fifth consecutive victory in the league.
On the other hand, Barcelona will enter the match in search of reconciliation with its fans, after leaving the Champions League in the quarter-finals, after losing to Paris Saint-Germain 4-6 on aggregate in the two-legged matches.
Xavi Hernandez is seeking to achieve victory, especially a victory that will make Barcelona reduce the difference to five points, and will make the remaining matches of this season extremely exciting.
Xavi wants to win this match to compensate for the great disappointment after leaving the Champions League, especially since he wants to leave something for the fans to celebrate after his departure from coaching the team at the end of the season, according to what was previously announced.
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