Monday, March 21, 2022 – 2:19 pm
ABU DHABI, March 21 / WAM / Barcelona fans lived an exceptional and historic night yesterday, after the historic victory it achieved over Real Madrid by 4-0 in the La Liga Clasico in the 29th round of the competition, bringing Barcelona its score to 54 points in third place from 28 matches. And the difference in goals with Atletico Madrid, the fourth, with the same balance, but from 29 games, behind Sevilla, the second, who has 57 points from 29 games, and Real Madrid, the leader, with 66 points from 29 games.
The match came as a record in all its numbers, especially for Barcelona led by its Spanish coach Xavi Hernandez, who managed to win the first match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after its renovation, to remain a painful memory for Real Madrid in its new stadium.
The victory over Real Madrid also raised the temperature of the competition for the La Liga title. If Barcelona wins its postponed match of the 21st round against Rayo Vallecano, which will be held next April, the difference with the leaders will be reduced to 9 points.
In the following report, “Emirates News Agency” / WAM / monitors the most prominent numbers and statistics of the historic meeting that brought the two teams together on Sunday evening.
Barcelona was able to return to victories against Real Madrid after an absence of 1,114 days, that is, more than 3 years, specifically after 6 confrontations that brought the two teams together in all competitions. The last victory of Barcelona against Real Madrid in the Spanish League was on March 2, 2019, after which the two teams met In 6 matches in all competitions, Real Madrid won 5 and drew one.
And according to the Opta statistics network, Gabonese Pierre Aubameyang, a Barcelona player who moved to his ranks last January from Arsenal, became the first player to contribute to 3 goals with the team, scoring two goals and making a goal, during his first match against Real Madrid in all competitions in the twenty-first century. .
The El Clasico match that Aubameyang played became the fifth match in a row in which the player scored against Real Madrid, with 7 goals. 2016/2017 and 2018/2017.
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez became the third coach in the team’s history to win the first Clasico against Real Madrid with four goals or more. He was preceded by the Czech Ferdinand Ouchek with a score of 7/2, in 1951, as well as the Argentine coach Gelenio Herrera with a score 4/0 in 1959.
According to Opta also, Ousmane Dembele was able to outperform the former Barcelona star and current Paris Saint-Germain player, Lionel Messi, as Dembele managed to reach 7 goals this season with Barcelona, surpassing Messi, who made 6 goals with Paris Saint-Germain. Germain this season.
WAM / Ahmed Mustafa / Abdel Nasser Moneim
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