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.
I understand what you meant by Real Madrid surprising us, after all they go good and very quality players in their team so one will easily expect a surprise from them but lets also consider whats is happening in laliga, I don't see Barcelona giving up soon, I see a determined team in Barcelona this season although the game of soccer can be funny sometimes, you see a team being in their peak for sometimes, the next time you see the same team flopping unannounced, Realmadrid is good a team no doubt but for now their performance arent much impressive, we hope to see them do whats expected of them soon.
Yea hence we know that no one can vividly predict who will be the champions of laliga this season, we can't just say a team has lost the trophy when the fight is not over however whosoever is making such comment might also be making a good point though not sure but based on their recent performance, Barcelona seem to have a very orgamised team compared to that of Real Madrid and i belive thats where anyone saying that they have lost is centering their argument, as for the task ahead both teams got work to do because the league contention continues.