Real Madrid and Barcelona are two greatest rivalries in the history of Spanish football and I don't think there's anything that's gonna make majority of both days to start loving players from the other team. Just like you, I'm a Real Madrid fan but unlike you, I do not have passionate love for Barcelona players because I always see them as my football enemy and that's what majority of Real Madrid fans across the world feels for Barcelona and their fans. Majority of Barcelona fans in the other hand also possesses same feeling for Real Madrid players and fans as well. It's a rivalry that'll last till eternity if you ask me abd the earlier we learn how to live with it the better for all us
But this season, Barcelona did not perform as much as Real Madrid did this year because Girona came in between both clubs and was performing side by side with Real Madrid at the top of the table league but at a point, Barcelona sprung up their performance to over take Girona and maintain the second position of the table with 57 points and a point ahead of Girona while Real Madrid is 8 points ahead of Barcelona at the top.
All clubs have played 26 matches each except Granada and Rayo Vallecano both which have 25 matches out of the 38 matches of the overall games of the league.