Spanish Football League: Barcelona Crushes Real Madrid

With a big 6-2 score, the Barcelona imposed themselves to the Real Madrid in the 34 Day of the Spanish league, taking away every possibility of catching up with them or having a spot in the great finale in which the absolute leader of La Liga will be defined. The championship currently belongs to Real Madrid but the team is starting to feel very near how the title is slipping through their hands.

After this crushing victory, Barça has increased their lead to a 7 points gap from the Real Madrid and continues at the top of the general standings with 85 points, fact that makes easy to foresee that the Blaugranas are going to be the future Spain champions. This would fulfill them with glory and would place them back in the championships winners list, after two years of not appearing on it.

Throughout the current season, the team leaded by Josep Guardiola has managed to stand out in such an amazing fashion that has earned the honor of being named by many as the best Barça team of all times, due to their great performance and their high level of competiveness shown either in domestic tournaments as the La Liga or the Copa del Rey as well as in European competitions such as the UEFA Champions League, in where they have been able to demonstrate and impose a superiority that place them among the best football clubs of the world.

This time, the Clásico of Spain started with the team leaded by Juande Ramos opening the score at minute 14 with a goal by Gonzalo Higuaín, which thrilled the Real Madrid fans and made everyone think that the match would go for the local team. But that did not happen. On the contrary, this first goal was the spark that strokes the Barça team, visitors at the Santiago Bernabeu, which with an extraordinary line up set by the boss Guardiola using all the star players of the squad, did not let their opponents to move forward.

From then on, the culés could dedicate to make a great display of the talent and skills they have as a team, moving quickly to Iker Casillas’ area, where at minute 18 the Frenchman Thierry Henry put the first of the six goals that Barça scored, humiliating Real Madrid. The pressure they were putting on the local team was getting bigger and bigger, scaring them and making them lose their pace while Barcelona knew how to take advantage of this and just two minutes later, another goal came by Carlos Puyol at the 20’.

As the match passed by, the merengues seemed disoriented and Barça had an absolute control over everything that was going on at the field. It was then when it the middle of the elation of the moment, Lionel Messi appeared to put the score 3-1 before the half time. When the game restarted, the tension kept the Real Madrid very worried, willing to get in front of Victor Valdes area and the opportunity came at minute 56 when Sergio Ramos put the score 2-3, giving some hope to his team. But right after that, their opponents reacted and at minute 58, Thierry Henry marked the fourth goal of the cule squad.

The frustration of the Real Madrid was obvious and had a negative impact on the team whereas Barcelona kept pressuring them without mercy. Some minutes later, Messi came back with the fifth goal at minute 75, devastating completely the Madrid team which since that moment were defenseless and even allowed one more goal – the sixth – when there were only 7 minutes left to play.

That way the 154th Spanish Derby came to an end, whit the Real Madrid being completely humiliated and overplayed by a Barcelona team that excelled themselves and made clear that they’re not planning to lose this opportunity to become champions of the Spanish League.