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Ten facts and curiosities of the Barça-Real Madrid

The Camp Nou will be the scene this Sunday (4.15pm / Movistar LaLiga) of a new and exciting fight between the FC Barcelona and the Real Madrid. Sports world informs you, collecting Opta statistics, of ten facts and curiosities of The classic of Spanish football.

1. The Barcelona have not won any of their last four games against him Real Madrid in LaLiga (1E 3D) and, if he does not win, he will reap his worst winless streak against the same team in the competition since May 2008, also against the Whites (2E 3D).

2. The Real Madrid has won the last three games in all competitions against Barcelona and has not won four or more in a row since 1965 (seven, one in Copa del Rey and six in LaLiga).

3. After their 1-3 victory in October 2020, Real Madrid can reap two consecutive away victories against Barcelona for the third time in the history of LaLiga and for the second in the Camp Nou -three victories between 1963 and 1965-.

4. Barcelona have scored in 34 of their last 35 home games in LaLiga (79 goals in total, an average of 2.3 per game), failing only against him Atlético de Madrid in May 2021 (0-0).

5. After his defeat to the Spanish on matchday eight (1-0), the Real Madrid can suffer two defeats in a row in LaLiga for the first time since the last two games played in May 2019, with Zinedine Zidane as a technician.

6. If you win this match, Sergio Busquets can become the Barcelona player with the most wins in the history of The classic in all competitions, surpassed only between the players of both teams by Paco Gento (21) – He has won 19 of the 40 he has played (8E 13D).

7. After his goal against Real Madrid at Camp Nou last season, the Barcelona forward, Ansu Fati, may become the fourth player to score in each of his first two games as a starter in ElClásico in LaLiga in the 21st century, after Samuel eto’o in 2005, he scored in his first three, Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2007 (two) and Pedro Rodriguez in 2010 (two).

8. Karim Benzema He has scored 10 goals in his 36 games as a player of the Real Madrid al Barcelona among all competitions and is one of 13 players to have reached double-digit goals in the history of The classic.

9. Of losing this party, the technician of the FC Barcelona, Ronald Koeman, will become the second coach in LaLiga history to lose his first three ElClásico games, after Patrick O’Connell between 1935 and 1940, also with the Barça team.

10. The Real Madrid coach, Carlo Ancelotti, have not won any of their five away games against him Barcelona among all competitions (2E 3D), losing in his two visits to the Camp Nou as a white technician. Just a coach from Real Madrid has lost its first three official away games in the history of The classic and went Leo Beenhakker, which fell in his first four visits to the Blaugrana enclosure between 1987 and 1988.