El Clasico del Mundo: facts and Statistics

Hearts will pound, bodies will sweat and blood pressure will rise when Barcelona and Real Madrid meet tomorrow at the “white castle”; Santiago Bernabeu.

Keeping with the competitive frenzy here are some facts and statistics that was accumulated through out the European clashes between the two Spanish giants:

1. Real Madrid scored 12 goals this season in the UEFA Champions League while Barcelona scored 7 goals.
2. This will be the third time that the two giants meet through the Champions League Semifinal with Real Madrid winning on both times in 1960 and 2002.
3. The two teams met 6 times throughout the history of all European club competitions with Real Madrid winning 3, Barcelona won 1 and they drew on 2 occasions.
4. Real Madrid has the best defense hand-in-hand with Manchester United after conceding only 3 goals in 10 matches this season.
5. Real Madrid won 12 matches and losing only 2 in the team’s encounter against Spanish Clubs in the UEFA Champions League with the last being against At. Madrid 1-0 and 2-1 against Barcelona in the 1960-1961 season.
6. If Real Madrid wins the Champions League, Jose Mourinho will be the first coach in history to win the title with 3 different clubs, having won the title with Porto and Inter Milan.
7. Mourinho’s record against Barcelona has not been amazing as he lost 4 times in 10 matches and winning only 3.
8. Barcelona has reached the semifinal for four times in a row this year. Yet they lost in 2008 to Man United, last year to Inter Milan and gone through on aggregate against Chelsea in 2009.
9. Barcelona lost the last two Semifinal encounter against a Spanish side, having lost 3-1 to Real Madrid in 2002 and to Valencia 5-3, in both home and away.
10. Barcelona won only 4 out of 18 of their encounters in the Champions league Semifinal.
11. Barcelona extraordinaire Lionel Messi has scored an amazing 15 goals in the team’s last 15 Champions League matches, yet he has not scored in the last 6 Semifinal matches in 3 years.
12. Barcelona won only 3 matches out of the last 14 away from home in the Champions League.
13. Barcelona has not won the last six European encounters against a Spanish side.
14. There ya go folks. On statistics Real Madrid is the better side, after all this is Real Madrid’s favorite title. But it’s always history talk with us Real Madrid fans, Barcelona is better in the last few years and going by what we saw in the Copa del Rey final, it shall be a cracking match.

-Hamdi Al-Haddad.

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