MADRID: Traditional to say there is no favorite in Clasico but this time even Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti cannot compensate for pretense.
Over the past decade, there have been some justifications in the usual Ptreitude, a statement that the game between Real Madrid and Barcelona has its own rhythm, there is no size and Victor will be a fast person in the heat of the fight.
Whatever advantage has passed, running a strong form here, a coach who is vulnerable there.
Sometimes dynamic has depend on competition, the game has been played.
Since 2010, 40 meetings have brought 16 Barcelona wins, 10 lotteries and 14 wins for Real Madrid.
The Barcelona team Pep Guardiola was the last to enjoy real domination, starting to run five consecutive wins in 2008 which covered 6-2 struggling at the Santiago Bernabeu and 5-0 insults at Camp Nou.
In the five matches, Barcelona claimed the aggregate score of 16-2.
Since then, there are no clubs put forward by four wins in other reflections, until this season, when Madrid issued a 2-1 victory in the rain at Camp Nou in October, in what the first meeting of two clubs since then Lionel Messi left last summer .
Ascendancy Madrid has not been so dramatic, or even, until now, especially seen.
Unlike Guardiola’s Barca, it’s not the dominance of ideas or styles.
There have been no scores that spell their supremacy in capital letters.
But Real Madrid is a clear favorite on Wednesday in the Spanish Super Cup semifinals, contrary to not in Spain, but Saudi Arabia.
The winner will play Atletico Madrid or Athletic Bilbao in the week’s final in Riyadh.
Airlifting competition 7,000 kilometers, will get a Spanish Football Federation around 300 million euros extra but the results have been angry, at least because of the Note of the human rights of Saudi Arabia, even if the objection is increasingly calm every year.
In the term football, it adds to the feeling of the tournament to become more exhibition than a serious trophy.
“It doesn’t make sense,” said Raul Garcia, the Athletics Bilbao played Atletico Madrid on Thursday.
“These days are all about money and sponsors.
We forgot about the basics of football.” Real Madrid sat 17 points from Barcelona in La Liga.
They are on track to win the title while Barca will sign now for the top four.
Karim Benzema and Vinicius Junior only scored two fewer goals in the league than all Barca troops.
In Europe, both clubs are no longer playing in the same competition.
The gap has widened, not because of the increase in Madrid this season under Ancelotti – even though it has helped – but because Barcelona plunges into mediocritas.
The club’s debt of more than one billion euros has dictated a quick and painful decline.
But there may be an opportunity for Barcelona if they can catch it, not just to end a series of wins, but to attach the results of the statement with some significant signs of progress in recent weeks.
Xavi Hernandez’s side was unbeaten in six matches.
They had moved from the La Liga table and sat just one point from the top four.
They have a system and plan.
They conceded fewer goals, even if they score their goals remain a problem.
Ferran Torres could be a solution and he could finally play after the Samuel Umtiti contract extension frees the space in the budget and he tested the negative for Covid on Monday.
Pedri, the best creator of the team, available again.
Ansu Fati, who hasn’t played since November, has also traveled to Riyadh.
However, it will resemble something close to the cup irritably if Barcelona avoids losing the fifth consecutive klalasico.
So heavy is an opportunity to support Real Madrid, many who suggest a narrow victory of Madrid will be counted as Barca’s success.
“In theory, we are a favorite,” Ancelotti said on Saturday.
“But there is theory and what’s happening in practice.”