About Match
3 points and 2 places separate them: FC Barcelona 1st with 12, Real Madrid 3rd with 9. In league terms the two rates read 4.25/0.5 for FC Barcelona and 2.5/0.75 for Real Madrid (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.5. Victory would move Real Madrid to 12 points and up to 1st, overtaking FC Barcelona, with other results unchanged.
FC Barcelona enter with seven wins in a row, having scored in 11 consecutive games.
Across 40 recorded meetings, FC Barcelona have 19 wins to Real Madrid's 16, with 5 draws, at 3.6 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host. History points to goals: 80% of the meetings had three or more, and both sides scored in 73%. Recent editions have opened up: 4.4 goals per game across the last five meetings against 3.6 historically.
Camp Nou in Barcelona stages the fixture, a ground that holds 6,000.