historical balance. Real Madrid and Barcelona have met in 248 official matches (183 in League35 in Cup15 in Super Cupeight in european cupsix in League Cup and one in the Coronation Cup). Real has added 100 wins and 415 goals, while Barça has achieved 96 wins and 404 goals. There have been 52 ties.
white streak Real Madrid has six consecutive official classics without losing. It reached seven twice (between 1932 and 1935 and between 1962 and 1965) and eight once (between 2001 and 2003). best streak of classics followed by Barcelona without defeat is seven (between 2011 and 2012, with Guardiola and between 2017 and 2019, with Valverde).
Last five Clasicos. Madrid have won their last five games against Barça (2-0, 1-3, 2-1, 1-2 and 2-3), in the same way that the Barça team won five in a row against the eternal rival between 2008 and 2010. The best series of victories in the history of the Clásicos was achieved by Madrid between 1962 and 1965 (seven in a row).
Barça at the Bernabéu. The azulgrana have won six of the last ten Clásicos that have been played in the Santiago Bernabeu, while Madrid has prevailed in the remaining four. Both teams have not drawn a draw in a white feud for nine years (1-1, on January 30, 2013). Last season the white club won 2-1, although that match was played at the Alfredo DiStefano.
A leading Madrid. Real Madrid have played 29 times as first-placed La Liga at home against Barça, totaling 16 wins, six draws and seven losses. However, the culé team has obtained great results in its last visits to a leading Madrid: three draws (1998, 2001 and 2003), one defeat in 2008 and four consecutive victories (2010, 2011, 2014 and 2017). Barça is the team that has won the most times (seven) at the home of a leading Madrid ahead of Athletic (four), Valencia (four), Athletic (three and Betis (three).
point difference. Madrid has only played twice against Barça at home with an advantage of 15 (or more) points in the standings over the Barça team: they won 3-2 on March 26, 1961, with a difference of 15 points (47-32). ) and tied 1-1 on April 19, 2003 with a 24-point difference (60-36). They recently won in a merengue feud, being a long way off in the table, the I raised (1-2 in 2021 being 17 points behind), Betis (0-2 in 2019 being 21 points behind) and Girona (1-2 in 2019 being 21 points behind).
Win the League after losing the Clásico. Madrid have only been La Liga champions three times after losing the Clásico at home. It happened in the 1975-76 (0-2), 2011-12 (1-3) and 2016-17 (2-3) seasons. Barcelona finished ahead of Real Madrid in the standings in 17 of the 22 seasons in which they won the Clasico at their arch-rivals. These are the six seasons in which there were two visiting victories in the two league Clásicos: 1928-29 (Barça champion), 1943-44 (Valencia champion), 1970-71 (Valencia champion), 2003-04 (Valencia champion) , 2011-12 (Real Madrid champion) and 2015-16 (Barcelona champion).
Rodrygo, Alaba and Vinicius, three Madridista pillars.
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hazard. Since his arrival in Madrid, six Clásicos have been played (five in La Liga and one in the Spanish Super Cup) and the Belgian has not yet been able to play a single minute. The other great forgotten of the white template in this campaign, Gareth Bale, he has not played a Clásico since December 18, 2019 and has not played a minute of official competition at the Bernabéu since February 26, 2020, when he played a quarter of an hour in the Champions before him Manchester City. Real Madrid has chained 19 consecutive official matches at its stadium without the participation of the Welsh footballer.
the collegiate. Juan Martinez Munuera will referee his second classic after taking charge of Barcelona 1-3 Real Madrid, played on October 24, 2020. The results that whites (18 wins, six draws and five losses) and Barça (19 wins, six draws and four losses) obtained with this Alicante referee are almost identical. In his 162 games in First division he has expelled 26 players (nine locals and 17 visitors) and has signaled 49 penalties (32 in favor of the home teams and 17 for foreigners).
with VAR. Since it was implemented in the 2018-19 season, these are all the arbitration decisions modified by video arbitration in which Barça and Madrid have been involved:
RMA (7), FCB (7).
RMA (4), FCB (4).
- Goals annulled to rivals:
RMA (5), FCB (4).
- Expulsions to the rivals:
RMA (1), FCB (3).
RMA (1), FCB (0).
RMA (4), FCB (0).
RMA (14), FCB (8).
- Goals conceded to rivals:
RMA (6), FCB (1).
RMA (2), FCB (3).
- Penalties given to rivals:
RMA (6), FCB (5).
- Expulsions annulled to rivals:
RMA (0), FCB (1).
- Penalties repeated by rival:
RMA (1), FCB (1).
In the Clásicos with VAR, apart from three corrections in the identity of those cautioned, there have only been two modifications: a penalty from Varana to Luis Suarez that Sánchez Martínez did not initially see (with Hernández Hernández in the VAR) and a penalty from lenglet to Sergio Ramos who initially did not see Martínez Munuera (with Sánchez Martínez in the VAR).