Do Real Madrid and Barcelona Actually Suck This Season? An Investigation

Barcelona and Real Madrid have suuuuucked this season, isn't that so? Simply horrendous. Losing to Granada, Levante, Mallorca, Levante once more, dropping focuses left, right and centre...it's been somber at the highest point of La Liga, isn't that so?

​Reader, we have been ruined. We've been ruined by Pep Guardiola, by Jose Mourinho, even by Luis Enrique.

This, accommodatingly, is the 25th season since La Liga moved to three focuses for a success – with Real and Barça taking 37 of the 50 accessible 'top two' positions in those crusades [assuming this season finished now, no doubt, I know].

What are we developing to here? We're developing to this: you can essentially take the Clasico adversaries' focuses sums as illustrative of how great the highest point of the association has been in a given season, because...they're top of the alliance in many seasons.

After Real Madrid dropped focuses for the third La Liga game out of four at the end of the week (the main group they've beaten in that run is Barcelona, go figure), we asked the pleasant individuals at Opta if its all the same to they viewing through the chronicles and seeing whether this is the most exceedingly terrible off the enormous two have been now in the season.

Erm, it isn't.

It's off by a long shot.

After 27 rounds of this season, the pair have chosen up 114 focuses from a potential 156 (which would have been 162, with the exception of they needed to drop focuses against one another). That is quite helpful – and it's really precisely the same figure as this time last season.

It's likewise an entire 26 focuses better than the most noticeably terrible consolidated season so far, which came in 1999/00. Truth be told, there were an entire five seasons between 1995/96 and 2002/03 where Barça and Real hadn't broke a consolidated 100 focuses at this point, even while they won five group titles, three Champions Leagues and a Cup Winners Cup in that time.

What are we taking from this? Is it that football when the new century rolled over was junk? That absolutely doesn't sound right, these were Barcelona groups with Ronaldinho, Kluivert, Rivaldo, Figo, early Xavi, Puyol. Genuine had Casillas, Hierro, Zidane, Ronaldo, Figo (once more), Guti, Makelele, wicked RAUL. Roberto sodding Carlos! Redondo! No, football wasn't waste.

Turns out TV cash increments and the outright cleaning of the 'minimal increases' procedure implies that triumphant has gotten all the more a science than any time in recent memory, and the enormous groups have shown signs of improvement at it. That is the reason this 'down' season is still by a wide margin over the groups of the turn of the century.

With respect to why it feels like a down season?

All things considered, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi have just played ten games this season where they've been on the pitch together for 60 minutes. They're both beyond 30 years old. Xavi and Iniesta are gone. Arouse's getting old as well.

At the Bernabeu, Cristiano Ronaldo is gone. Modric, Ramos, Kroos, Benzema, Marcelo and Bale are all on an inappropriate side of 30.

This, er...this is La Liga now. It'll be generally excellent players playing together well overall, rather than the two best advances of the century pushing each other to more prominent statures for the best piece of 10 years, upheld up by two of the best supporting throws at any point gathered.


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