The Supercopa El Clasico first leg match will be held at Camp Nou tonight. As the opening game of season 2012/13, the match will determine which is the best between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

The question is, will Real Madrid survive the game, knowing that they didn’t start the league season in a fancy way after a 1-1 draw over Valencia last week ?

As for Barcelona, it’s out of the question. They have succeeded in tasting their first league victory of the season by trashing Real Sociedad with an amazing 5-1 score. Then again, history still take side on Real Madrid. Statistically, from 5 Supercopa match, Real Madrid have won 4 of them. But we all know, it takes more than just a statistic to win a game against Barcelona.

As we all can remember from last Supercopa, the 5-4 score aggregate result for Barca’s victory came from a highly tension match, if we won’t call it violent. Especially the second leg at Camp Nou, where the referee threw a lot of cards, 8 yellows and 2 reds, which showed their brutality on the pitch. Yet the most annoying thing of the game was Jose Mourinho’s unexceptable behaviour over Tito Vilanova, for poking his eye.

But enough with that, and let us put more focus on the main object here, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. These 2 players are no doubt are the biggest reason why El Clasico become more interesting.

Besides Real Madrid vs Barcelona , El Clasico can also be called the clash of Messi and Ronaldo. However, based on the last Spanish league performance, Messi is one step ahead Ronaldo. As we can see on the game, Cristiano Ronaldo performance was just so-so, and far from dangerous. He played below his own standards and failed to create threatening shots.

For the disappointing performance, Cristiano Ronaldo made a statement :

“Physically, we’re not in our best condition. This is normal. We will be better, we’ll try to,”said Ronaldo. “We have tried everything, but we still have to reach the highest level we can.”

And while Ronaldo is still working out to get his performance back, Messi already shown his best by scoring 2 goals in the 5-1 winning over Sociedad, and helped Barcelona to stole 2 points in the standings. Not to mention the pre-season friendly matches, where Messi made similar action by scoring more goals.

This condition is tough even for Ronaldo, which all his action on the pitch will be putting in comparison by the press.  And what makes it even harder, is that the first leg clasico will be held at Camp Nou, a place that is like a playground for Messi and his teammates. The only thing that Real Madrid can do is to give it all out, with 100% of confidence and optimism.

In the end, apart from the heat between the two team, we still expect to see a fairplay and entertaining football match. And may the best team win.

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With the penalty in the last match against Granada, Ronaldo already collects 23 goals in all away league matches. Compared to Messi’s 15 goals in home game, or statistically 0,83 goal per game.

The duel between Ronaldo and Messi are endlessly. They have been compared to anything that related to football achievement. While Ronaldo is the king on away match, Messi is  considered as a king in home game, since he has collected 35 goals in Camp Nou this season. In statistic, he scored every 1,84 goal in every home match.

As for Ronaldo, he only recorded 22 goals at Santiago Bernabeu, with a statistic of 1,22 goal every home game.

Until now, there is no other player to score near the amount of Ronaldo’s home game record. The same happened with Messi’s away record, which none other players that ever reach his number of goals.

But for Ronaldo, his goal against Granada has adding his record as the first player in La liga to score in 8 consecutive away match.

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As for the visitor Real Madrid, they only need 1 more victory to ensure their place as the winner of Spanish league Title this season. So a victory tonight will be an early celebration for them, and a draw can only give a slight hope for rival Barcelona.

Based on head to head statistic, Real Madrid recorded 4 victories in the last 4 meetings. Real Madrid even made an  impressive goal record of 17 goals on Bilbao, while only let them to conceived 3 goals. The last time Bilbao have defeated Madrid was in January 2012 with a close victory ove 1-0.

So far, Bilbao is not yet to move out from his 7th rank in the standings, with 48 points in 35 matches. However, Bilbao is hard to get beaten in their home ground, and only suffered 1 lost at San Mames in the last 10 league games, 6 victory, and 3 draw results. But for Real Madrid who have never got beaten in the last 15 away match, facing Bilbao is probably like walking in the park.

HEAD TO HEAD

22 Jan 2012 : Real Madrid 4-1 Athletic Bilbao (La Liga)
8 Apr 2011 : Athletic Bilbao 0-3 Real Madrid (La Liga)
20 Nov 2010 : Real Madrid 5-1 Athletic Bilbao (La Liga)
8 Mei 2010 : Real Madrid 5-1 Athletic Bilbao (La Liga)
16 Jan 2010 : Athletic Bilbao 1-0 Real Madrid (La Liga)

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The 1-2 home defeat against Barcelona at the first leg of Copa clasico  has made it difficult for Real Madrid to survive the second leg match. It is a matter of life and death, and their goal is to  maintain the Copa Trophy. But  firstly, they have to win the next clasico with at least 2 goals gap.

Last night, Cristiano Ronaldo scored the only goal for Real Madrid. However, it might be harder for him to do the same at Camp Nou, knowing his goal statistic at Barca homeground is consider low. Until now, Ronaldo only recorded 1 goal at Camp Nou, which on last season’s Copa final.

So, the real question is, can Ronaldo help Real Madrid to snatch 2 goals at Camp Nou and leave nothing for the host ??

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