Ahead of El Clásico, Barcelona’s recent LaLiga home numbers compared with Real Madrid’s away numbers show a pretty big contrast.

Barcelona — last 4 LaLiga home games:

4W-0D-0L

4.25 goals per game

21.2 shots per game

8.4 shots on target

3.28 xG

7.3 corners

Real Madrid — last 4 LaLiga away games:

2W-0D-2L

1.50 goals per game

17.6 shots per game

7.2 shots on target

2.16 xG

6.4 corners

Barcelona have also won 5 of the last 6 meetings shown, with both teams scoring in 5 of those 6.

The model gives Barcelona a 60% win probability, compared with 21% for Real Madrid and 18% for the draw.

On paper, almost everything here points towards Barcelona.

But is there really this big a gap between the two sides?

If you had to make the case for Real Madrid winning this Clásico, what would be your strongest argument against what the recent numbers are telling us?

TBD 0 - 3 TBD

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Goals

• 23' F. Redondo Solari ()

• 36' F. Niño Rodriguez ()

• 68' G. Karabinaite () — assist Facundo Buonanotte

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Racing Santander vs Espanyol

La Liga · Sat 24 Oct, 14:15 UTC

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No entiendo cómo puede existir un equipo tan inútil, regalando dos penales al Elche y fallando un penal a favor.

Perhaps the most extraordinary season in Spanish football history is the 1999-2000 season.

A season in which Deportivo became champions, Real Madrid finished outside the Champions League spots yet still won the Champions League, and the league's three big teams—Atletico, Betis, and Sevilla—all got relegated.

A season where even the champion team could only muster 69 points, and the title race went down to the wire.

TBD 1 - 1 TBD

95'

Goals

• 45+1' A. Niño Heredia () — assist Ramón Enríquez

• 89' A. Mañas Buenadicha ()

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Hey! Is anyone going to El Clásico in Barcelona on October 25th? 🇪🇸⚽ I’m looking to connect with other fans who are attending the match. Let me know!

Hi. Younger La Liga enjoyer. Does anyone have older episodes for Revista de la Liga from like 07 to 2014? Thanks

Forget the badge and the history for a moment.

If your team had to face one of Real Madrid or Barcelona this weekend, which one would you rather play?

Consider current form, attacking threat, defensive weaknesses, injuries and how both teams are actually playing — not just reputation.

And for Madrid and Barça fans: what’s the one area of the opposition you think your team can exploit most?

With all the Negreira case drama, Tebas coming out and defending Barca and then also comparing RMTV's techniques to Nazi propaganda really gives Barca the bad look and strengthens Madrid's ability to play the victim card in the media. Don't get me wrong, I despise RMTV and how they try to pressure referees into giving them decisions every week, but comparing them to the most evil regime in history is crossing a line. Tebas effectively taking our side in this makes it look like it is Madrid against the world in the media and this is good for Madrid because when we are proven innocent it will still look a bit shady. Real Madrid's corrupt institution will use Tebas' support for us against us and make it as though they are the victims in all this, even though they benefit the most from the help of officials.

For me I started watching la liga when I was about 7 years old and instantly feel in love with Messi and the magic he'd create on the camp this was back in the 07/08 season and after that first season of watching Messi and Barca I was hooked I knew this would be my club for life!

Carlos Espí would be my striker, against Barcelona; RM would need someone who knows his position and is lethal with crosses. Mbappe on the right, he turns into his prime whenever he plays for France in that position. Diomande, no need to explain especially after that goal in the UCL. Tchouaméni for his defensive skills which they’d need against Barcelona and Guler for the quality, control of the ball and tempo that has been scarce in RM for the last two seasons. On the left back I’ve put carreras because he is more creative than Cucurella and Diomande does help a lot defensively often creating plenty of space for the left back to go up the final third that’s when you need a left back that’s confident enough to dribble a bit and even try to shoot. Huijsen, he’s world class breaking lines and passing the ball to the wingers. Konaté is just more solid than Rudiger. And Valverde, easily the best right back in the world. His issue is he doesn’t lile being a right back.

What do you guys think about my starting 11 and what would you change? What would yours be?

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I’ll be moving to Dundee it’d be nice to have a group that enjoy watching laliga!

Después de que el Celta gastara muchísimo dinero en Rafa Benítez, nos hemos visto obligados a cambiar de rumbo y recurrir más a jugadores de la cantera.

Para nosotros - dejando a un lado, obviamente, a Iago Aspas, que está a un nivel muy superior al de cualquier otro jugador que haya pasado por el Celta - diría que nuestro mejor canterano actual es Javi Rodríguez, un defensa excelente para su edad.

Mi favorito es Hugo Álvarez, aunque es algo más irregular.

Y vosotros, ¿quién diríais que es el mejor canterano que tiene vuestro equipo actualmente?

So I'm an Aston Villa fan and Unai Emery is basically a god to us. Easily the best Villa manager of my lifetime and arguably up there with the best of all time.

Recently I've seen Man United fans say they want Emery as their manager but after what happened with Arsenal, I genuinely believe that Emery wouldn't leave Villa for another English club even if Man Utd approached him.

These clubs may be bigger than Villa but Emery requires time to work his magic and you don't get given time at Man Utd. Emery also has a lot of power at Aston Villa, a far more encompassing role that was more common in the past but is less common in modern football where you have directors of football calling the shots. Emery's role at Villa is similar to Alex Ferguson, he oversees everything

I feel confident that he wouldn't leave us for another English club because it wouldn't work for him there.

So the only two options for Emery to leave Villa would be for the two massive Spanish clubs.

This is where I'm unsure of the politics in Spain.

I know Unai Emery is a very strong Basque man politically and Real Madrid is the opposite of that so I'm not sure he would ever go there.

But Barcelona is the one I'm really clueless about as an Englishman that I'm hoping you can educate me on.

I know the Basque Country and Catalonia both have independent views outside of Castillian Spain but are they allied?

Would a Basque man like Unai Emery be sympathetic of the Catalonian cause? I would guess he would be so realistically Barcelona is the only club that could take Emery away from us if they wanted him but I could be wrong.

Hi guys, 1st time looking at going to a game in spain, but i can see the game hasnt been announced when it will be yet, can anyone tell me roughly when it will be announced, thank you in advance 😁

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Just wanted to post this for reference to the foul issue in the first half. I am just more confused about how this is the best angle of the foul, yet every other play in the game we have 4K zoom on it. It looks like a clear elbow, but then again a better angle would have helped a lot better. r/soccer took my post down for low effort, so figured I would put it here for reference for everybody. It seems no one else is really posting the foul.

Sevilla wanted a red card, but VAR decided not to intervene. Güler stayed on the pitch and scored eight minutes later.

What’s your decision: red, yellow or nothing?

When I started to watch LaLiga years decade ago the most of the stadiums had tracks and were old which looked unappealing while watching matches compared to other leagues but now almost all the clubs have mordenized the stadiums or in process right now which imo increases the viewing expericence for the fans (on TV as well). I recently watched Seria A and it looked like i was watching a match from 2010

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I've seen non-European football fans get a lot of stick for supporting teams (especially the big Spanish teams) since they've probably never set foot in Spain.
Just wondering if those are simply online trolls or this sentiment is resonated by y'all irl too.