Except the unfortunate point loss against Vallecano, Barcelona are no different than Real Madrid in terms of strength these days. They are even better in defense compared to Real Madrid as they have conceded only one goal in total. Comparing this Barcelona to Koeman's, there is a huge difference. Thanks to Xavi Barcelona are coming back to their old days. The competition for the title will be really hard of course but finally I can say that Barcelona also have a huge chance for the title.
It is of course only the first weeks of the season but it's not difficult to see some key points at both of Barcelona and Real Madrid already now. After a point these two teams would have a big gap with the others by pulling away from them.
There is a difference between this Barcelona and Koeman's Barcelona, there is so much difference between the two. Xavi has really improved this squad with many talented players this time. In the time of Koeman, Barcelona looked like an average league team, nobody feared them last season but Xavi has been able to transform the team to some sort of standard to compete with Real Madrid in the league.