Barcelona vs Real Madrid LaLiga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊 🤩
Barcelona have failed to score in their last two Clasicos in LaLiga. Only once before in the competition‘s history have they failed to score in three consecutive games against Real Madrid - between March 1957 and February 1958.
FC Barcelona have scored 399 goals in El Clasico history in all competitions and could reach 400 goals in this game. The last centenary goal scored by a Barcelona player was by Luis Enrique in October 2000 in Barca’s 2-0 win, which was Luis Figo's first visit to the Camp Nou as a Real Madrid player.
Real Madrid are unbeaten in their last two Clasicos in LaLiga (W1 D1), keeping a clean sheet in both. After their 2-0 win at Santiago Bernabéu in March, the Whites could win consecutive league games against Barcelona for the first time since May 2008 (also two).
Real Madrid have won the first El Clasico of a LaLiga season in just one of the last 12 campaigns (D3 L8), with that win coming at Santiago Bernabéu (3-1 in October 2014).
The last time they won their first El Clasico of a LaLiga season at the Camp Nou was in December 2007, 1-0 thanks to Jtilio Baptista‘s goal.
Barcelona are winless in their last two LaLiga games (D1 L1), last going three without a win in the competition in September 2018 (D2 L1), under Ernesto Valverde.
After their 0-1 defeat against Cadiz 0-1 last time out, Real Madrid could lose back-to-back league games for the first time since May 2019 (1 -3 vs Real Sociedad and 0-2 vs Real Betis).
Barcelona's Lionel Messi is the top-scorer in El Clasico history (26 goals), the top-scorer in El Clésico history in LaLiga (18) and the top- scorer in El Clasico history in LaLiga at Camp Nou (7).
Barcelona player Lionel Messi has gone 425 minutes of football without scoring against Real Madrid in all competitions, his second worst drought in El Clasico (522 mins). The Argentinean has failed to score with his last 16 shots in this fixture (six on target).
Ronald Koeman will manage his first El Clasico as Barcelona manager in LaLiga, becoming the seventh Dutch manager in this game in the competition's history. Only one of those managers won their first El Clasico in LaLiga: Louis van Gaal for Barcelona in November 1997 (3-2 at Santiago Bernabéu), with the other managers drawing three and losing two.
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Zinedine Zidane has lost just two of his nine Clasicos as Real Madrid manager in all competitions (W4 D3), recording two of his four wins at Camp Nou.
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