The gap now with Barcelona is 9 points and Madrid must really let go of La Liga and focus on fixing the stability of their squad. I don't doubt them but it would be better to be able to compete with Barcelona then it takes extraordinary consistency. Madrid is far behind not only in terms of player quality but also in terms of strategy there are not many options. Ancelotti seems to have lost his era now and the club needs an injection of a more aggressive coach, utilizing the abilities of his players so that they can create creativity in building attacks.
The victory that Barcelona continues to get in this season's matches could provide a little blessing to Lewandowski because he is able to make a good contribution to the Barcelona team and also often scores goals in important matches even though he did not score in the match against Espanyol. But with this long season, I also think that he still has many opportunities to continue to increase his number of goals in every match this season.
Real Madrid lost their match against Barcelona, and for sure, 9 points is a huge gap between Barcelona and Real Madrid. However, Real Madrid seem to find it difficult to top the La Liga table, but seriously, to me, I’m still expecting Real Madrid to surprise us.
Although I know that Barcelona's performance is great this season and they have been doing well this season, it will be too early to say Real Madrid have lost the La Liga. We all know that we are not 100% sure that Barcelona will continue to be winning all the games as they are right now, and Real Madrid will continue trying to win their matches again. So I think they both still have a lot of hard work to put in.