Real Madrid will travel on Saturday to Barcelona to face their big rivals in El Clásico (15.15, UK time). It will be a great opportunity to put some distances in between because if Los Blancos get the three points they will be 9 points clear at the top of the table. Have a look here at some of El Clásico stats.
It will be the second El Clásico for Zinedine Zidane, who was able to beat Barcelona in their first meeting back in April with Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring the goals. However, Los Blancos still have in mind the hard defeat last year at Bernabéu Stadium (0-4) with Rafa Benítez on the bench.
El Clásico is a match followed all over the world. We want to show you some stats of El Clásico with the infographic created by MysoccerHQ. Although FC Barcelona are heavy favourites in the bookmakers, there are a lot of reasons to believe that Real Madrid can beat again FC Barcelona at their ground.
They’ve met 172 times in La Liga, with Real Madrid winning 72 times and FC Barcelona 68. In FC Barcelona ground, there have been 86 games, with Blaugranas winning 49 and Real Madrid 20, the last time was last season.
The topscorer en El Clásico is Leo Messi, with 21 goals, 14 in La Liga. Meanwhile, Los Blancos topscorer in El Clásico is Alfredo Di Stefano with 18 goals, 14 of them in La Liga. The player with most appearances is Manuel Sanchís (43), only one more than Xavi Hernández (42). Messi and Puskas have the record of hat tricks (2) and the Argentinian also have the record of assists (3).
The longest undefeated run of wins is for FC Barcelona (6), one more than Real Madrid (5), but the longest undefeated run of games is for Los Blancos (14), whereas Barcelona have 13.
You can see here the full infographic with the stats:
El Clasico Infographic (Barcelona Vs Real Madrid) – An infographic by the team at www.Mysoccerhq.com
