In UEFA's latest club rankings, Real Madrid is only in 5th place, and in this season's Champions League prediction list, La Liga giants are only the 5th favourite, with a 7% chance of winning the title, which is one-third of the probability of Bayern, the 1st favourite. All kinds of circumstances show that the "White Coats" are relatively despised, but the football field speaks by strength, in the recent game, they only made 8 shots, and they sealed the victory 3-1 and surprised the fans!
In the ninth round of La Liga, the Bernabeu welcomed Barcelona, if you only consider the situation of this season's league, the momentum of the "Red and Blue Army" is actually not inferior to the "White Coats", before this game, the two teams with the same points, ranked first and second in the standings, of which Xavi's team occupied the first position due to the goal difference, which is also the team's taste of first again for more than 800 days, Barca fans once saw the hope of the home team winning the championship.
Against Real Madrid, Barcelona won 4-0 in their most recent meeting, which happened at the Bernabeu, and the "Red and Blue" undoubtedly hope to repeat the feat. In the 5th minute, Pedri crossed Rafinha near the top of the arc and the Brazilian fired a long-range shot from the right rib, and Luning jumped up to easily remove the ball. In the 11th minute, the storm changed abruptly, and under the entanglement of Busquets, Kroos sent a straight plug from the midfield position, and the Barcelona defense was torn apart in an instant.
Vinicius quickly stepped forward from the left into the box, and although Ter Stegen blocked the Brazilian youngster's shot, the follow-up Benzema shot made the German goalkeeper cry bitterly, although he tried his best to save in the opposite direction, but he was unstable in the lower set and could only watch the ball rush into the bottom line. In the 25th minute, Barcelona played a match up front, the ball was passed twice to Frenkie de Jong, the Dutch midfielder missed the ball, and also attracted the full attention of Ter Stegen to make Lewandowski on the left better, but unfortunately the Polish forward missed a tackle when there was no defense and an empty goal.
In the 34th minute, Vinicius sparked left and right at the top of the arc to attract two defenders, Chuameni stepped in to grab the ball, and again split the side, Flandre Mendy sucked in the eye from the left and tapped back to assist Valverde, and the Uruguayan slashed at the top of the arc to give Real Madrid a 2-0 lead. In the 43rd minute, Busquets' header crossed in front of Lewandowski, the Polish striker jumped at the same time as Militão, and the Brazilian was even better to defuse the opponent's attack.
In the 82nd minute, Fathi scored the ball from the left, crossed into the left side of the box, and Ferran Torres met the ball and pushed it in. In the 91st minute, Rodrigo scored from 12 yards to declare Barcelona defeated, and Real Madrid won 3-1. The data shows that Real Madrid's possession and number of shots in this game are much lower than Barcelona, with 14 percentage points less possession than their opponents, only 8 shots on goal, 10 fewer than their opponents, but they still win.
It was also the sixth match Real Madrid has won in the last seven games between the two teams, and interestingly, Valverde is a big nemesis of Barcelona, winning one by one in the three games he has scored against Barcelona, including two league "Blancats" won 3-1 and the Spanish Super Cup 3-2. To say that Valverde is only Real Madrid against Barcelona is not accurate enough.
In fact, Valverde scored 11 goals, leading the team to 11 victories during this period, with Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Leipzig falling one by one. The 24-year-old Valverde's highlights also reflect Lewandowski's bitterness, and Barcelona signed him for 50 million euros this summer in the hope that the team's offensive end can achieve a qualitative change. In the first few league rounds, the Pole did perform well, even showing a 44-second blitzkrieg to break the goal.
However, in the face of strong opponents, Lewandowski repeatedly muted the fire, facing his old club Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League, the Pole showed weakness, and in the first leg against Inter Milan, he still did not score, this derby with Real Madrid, he did not score, which is regrettable.