Above normal and what is not

In just two weeks, the framework that wraps the league has been turned upside down I do not think the final, but important enough to us to look at the classification and it has acquired a strong tone Barca. Even the draw of Madrid in Almeria , the league was a duel between the two in which the difference was minimal and it seemed that both win all their games to settle the matter in direct confrontations. Now, after one draw and yesterday's defeat to Osasuna, with a complicated victory in between against Mallorca , Madrid sees the leaves Barcelona, victory after victory, to seven points. The white team is going through a rough patch, something normal for a long period in which there will always be tough games in which things will not and you will lose points. What is not normal is Barcelona.

It is difficult to see Real Madrid and Barcelona in the same mood and performance. As usual, if one rises the other falls, so we rarely see a real duel between the two with all the swords in the air. But now we see a team, Real Madrid, you are really doing a good league season and also made last year with Pellegrini, the problem for the white team is that Barcelona is doing more than fine. Last year broke records for points, so if we champion and the runner, but Guardiola's team does not guess to see the roof and this season has already matched the record for consecutive victories held by the mythical mother of Di Stefano and Gento . A brand that can not be taken lightly.

Real Madrid The numbers are good, very good for a team that year after year seems to undergo a major renovation. In 21 league games, Mourinho's team has won sixteen, has drawn three and lost two, leaving to earn twelve points, scoring 48 goals and conceding 18. Furthermore, in Champions ranked eighth no problems in King's Cup and face have a place in the final. The problem is that front has a team that is doing better, that of 63 possible points has yielded only five in the form of a draw and a defeat.

Glancing at the other European leagues can not but note that the numbers of Madrid are leading, while Barca are out of the ordinary. In Italy, Milan has won fourteen matches, drawn five and lost three, which has given nineteen points. In England, the Manchester-talking leader, has not lost a game, but has yielded nine draws, which has lost eighteen points. In France, Lille has won eleven, drawn eight and lost two, which has continued to gain twenty-two points, while in Holland, PSV has won fourteen, drawn five and lost two, leaving sixteen points on the road. Only Borussia Dortmund, who lost two games and tied two others, taking eleven points to the second, and the stunning Porto Villas-Boas, who has only lost two draws, are comparable to Barcelona.

We can discuss the difference between the two and the rest, but still, what you are doing for Barcelona, taking the parties with insulting superiority, is worthy of all the information necessary. And despite all Madrid is able to follow the trail but now it away because it is also doing a good job because it was a solid team that you can choke a party or which may have a losing streak, something that could also pass perfectly to Barcelona in a month or two.

Barca team but now you're getting the suffocating pressure as Real Madrid which he can not afford to leave any point on the road, and when that happens is magnified all over, ignoring all the alarms and where only a defeat in a sport which one wins and another loses, he becomes little more than a matter of been looking all wrong or worse. And no big deal.

Photo | Ben Sutherland