From the beginning of the season, I never thought that Barcelona would even have chances to top the table. The reason was that I felt Real Madrid would be in such great form that no team could easily defeat them, due to the signing of Mbappé. Another reason was that Barcelona had not been able to sign more quality players to strengthen their squad, so I was not expecting any great rival for Real Madrid. As the gap in points between Barcelona and Real Madrid is getting wider, it is a big surprise to me. It is still possible for Real Madrid to catch up with the points if they get back to good form.
The high expectations of Madrid and some of the problems, especially the doubts about Flick, made sense when many people thought Madrid would be comfortable in the competition this season and Barcelona would still have the same problems, but the situation has changed now especially after the big wins that Barcelona continues to win including against Madrid which makes Barcelona even more different now because they have a new spirit to conquer the half of the season well.
It's just that for now or maybe in the middle of the season Madrid can be more able to maintain consistency in order to make the competition more interesting because after all until now we must have seen that in the end the big league is always colored with a fairly tight competition so with the situation in La Liga now that Barcelona is like running alone, of course this must be corrected because after all the season will not be too interesting if only Barcelona goes far without being able to be pursued in terms of points.