10 important facts about Sunday’s Classic

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He FC Barcelona visit the stadium real Madrid next Sunday (9:00 pm / Movistar LaLiga) and it will be a new edition of the long history of confrontations between the two that have left great statistics to remember. Here are some of them from Opta:

1

white stripes

Real Madrid have won the last three games against Barcelona in all competitions,
including two from this season. In only four previous seasons, the white team had
achieved three victories in ElClásico in the same campaign, the last of them in 12/13 with José
Mourinho (W6 W3 D2 D1).

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2

Barça are great in Madrid

Barcelona have won 10 of their last 18 away games against Real Madrid in the interim
all competitions (D1 L7), including the last: 0-1 in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey in
2023, having achieved the same victories as in their previous 48 away duels in ElClásico (10V
15E 23D).

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3

Goals at a record pace

A total of 600 goals have been scored throughout the history of ElClásico in LaLiga, 299 achieved by
FC Barcelona and 301 for Real Madrid. 600 was exceeded in only two confrontations
goals in the entire history of the competition: 611 at Barcelona-Athletic Club and 610 at Real
Madrid-Athletic Club

The whites lead Barça by four points after their victory at Montjuïc and Girona are equally leaders of the meringues.

4

The whites, looking to break a record

After their victory over Lluís Company in the first round (1-2), Real Madrid has
odds of winning their two games against Barcelona in the same LaLiga season for
third time in the last 39 years, after the 07/08 campaign with Bernd Schuster and 20/21 with Zinedine
Zidane

Real Madrid players celebrate their victory against Barça at Montjuïc

5

Barça is no longer a wall for Madrid

Real Madrid have scored at least two goals in six of their last eight games against
Barcelona in LaLiga (15 goals in total), after going without scoring in three of their previous ones
five league games against the Azulgranas.

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6

Mark in Madrid, possible mission

Barcelona have only failed to score in one of their last 16 Clásicos away matches
Real Madrid in LaLiga (2-0 in March 2020) while Real Madrid have not yet managed
points in four of their last eight at home against Barcelona in league competition.

Ronaldo Nazario celebrates a goal with Barça

7

Ronaldo and Kocsis, centenarians

Barcelona’s next scorer in ElClásico was the Barça team’s 300th goal against
Real Madrid in LaLiga history. Barça’s other centenarian goal in this league match
They were Sándor Kocsis in a victory at Camp Nou in January 1962 (3-1) and Ronaldo Nazário,
also in a victory at Camp Nou (1-0) but in May 1997.

Maffeo and Vinicius, during Mallorca-Real Madrid

8

Whites don’t remember the last defeat

Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last 25 LaLiga games (W19 D6), the longest such streak.
of games unbeaten in the same competition campaign since 1989/90 (28 L 20 W 8 D).

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9

The culés, on a roll

Barcelona have not lost any of their last 10 LaLiga games (W8 D2), which they have left
clean sheet in the last six, and hasn’t gone on a string of seven or more games without conceding a goal in
competition since October 2014 with Luis Enrique as coach (8P W7 D1).

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10

Vini wants another goal against Barça

Real Madrid player, Vinícius Júnior, scored six goals in 16 games against him
Barcelona in all competitions, scoring a hat-trick in the most recent competition for the Super Cup
from Spain in January. Only against Valencia (eight) did the Brazilian score more goals in
white team (also six against Levante).

Source: La Verdad

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