Real Madrid are getting their feet back after so many injuries woes and Kylian Mbappe finding it hard to settle down before but things are becoming much more better, Mbappe is really doing well now and their attack is not entirely dependent on Vinicius Junior to get a win.
While Barcelona has been trashing Real Madrid this season meeting which still do matter but the overall winner is still going to be the league winner and Real Madrid is leading that race, and might in the end become league Champions again this season while Barcelona might just have to fight for second place against Atletico Madrid. The stat of Xavi in comparison to the number of games with Hansi Flick was even better but we are going to wait for the season or next to fully judge.
I think Real Madrid has not proven that they are now better because we have not seen the consistency of neat performance and also a combination of their two mainstay mbappe and also Vinicius.
Instead I think Barcelona this season must be recognized by all its changes and Hansi Flick as their new coach is successful enough to make a much better change for the performance of the Barcelona team even though they often cannot maintain their performance consistency.
Overall Real Madrid and Barcelona have a fairly balanced strength this season so that it is possible to occur in fierce competition in the race for the title, and the KUA of the team also has the same problem that is not able to maintain consistency so because it makes all possibilities possible for Barcelona or Real Madrid.
The chemistry between Real Madrid players is slowly starting to build well, something that was not seen at the beginning of the season. Slowly the selfishness in the star players is starting to fade, and now they are more focused on teamwork. So that Madrid, which had lost its consistency, has now managed to improve its position, both in the Champions League and La Liga, even though it failed in the European Super Cup. Meanwhile, for Barcelona, like previous seasons, they performed well at the beginning of the season, and after that lost consistency and their position continued to decline. But fortunately the negative trend they experienced in La Liga, it did not affect other matches in the Champions League, in the UCL they are really in a very good position, besides that they also managed to secure one trophy for this season.
It is interesting to see the development of each team competing in La Liga. Only half a season has passed and there have been many surprises, who would have thought that Barcelona, who started the season brilliantly, but after defeating Real Madrid in La Liga in the first leg, they started to lose points. However, this is different from Real Madrid, who actually used the defeat as more motivation to rise and reach their peak after they lost to Barcelona in the European Super Cup final. Real Madrid are increasingly compact and are starting to get good chemistry in the back, middle, and front lines and the peak is Mbappe scoring a hat trick for the first time.
Real Madrid did experience a negative trend at the beginning of the season. However, Real Madrid seems to prove themselves with the extraordinary revival they have experienced lately both in La Liga and in the UCL. Carlo Ancelotti, who had been criticized, finally managed to bring Real Madrid back to a brilliant trend by taking over the top of the standings from Barcelona, who were being plagued by many problems, even though Barcelona is currently starting to rise, it is difficult to catch up with the 7-point gap from Real Madrid.