Although the official line from Barcelona is that the LaLiga Santander title stays a pipe dream, after their beautiful El Clasico triumph that dream now not appears out of the query.
The very fact is that Actual Madrid at the moment maintain a 12-point lead over Barcelona, which the Blaugrana might cut back to 9 in the event that they win their recreation in hand over Rayo Vallecano.
Nevertheless, Barcelona look to be a crew that may drop only a few factors from now to the top of the marketing campaign.
All of it relies on how Actual Madrid carry out of their upcoming fixtures and if they are going to bounce again. For them to concede the title at this level would imply shedding three matches, which is as many as they’ve misplaced all through the LaLiga Santander season thus far.
Barcelona, in the meantime, would don’t have any margin for error, as they give the impression of being to proceed placing on stress on Actual Madrid.
Barcelona’s enchancment below Xavi
Xavi Hernandez‘s impression was made clear on Sunday evening, because the crew’s morale is sky-high they usually have a squad that’s able to being aggressive till the top of the season.
One other issue that may very well be in Barcelona‘s favour is that Actual Madrid may very well be distracted by their Champions League marketing campaign.
The tip-of-season fixture lists
If we check out the respective fixture lists of every facet, we see that they each have powerful matches by which they might drop factors and either side nonetheless must play Sevilla and Actual Betis.
Barcelona’s remaining fixtures:
Barcelona-Sevilla
Levante-Barcelona
Barcelona-Cadiz
Actual Sociedad-Barcelona
Barcelona-Rayo Vallecano
Barcelona-Mallorca
Actual Betis-Barcelona
Barcelona-Celta Vigo
Getafe-Barcelona
Barcelona-Villarreal
Actual Madrid’s remaining fixtures:
Celta Vigo-Actual Madrid
Actual Madrid-Getafe
Sevilla-Actual Madrid
Osasuna-Actual Madrid
Actual Madrid-Espanyol
Atletico Madrid-Actual Madrid
Actual Madrid-Levante
Cadiz-Actual Madrid
Actual Madrid-Actual Betis
