Barcelona and Real Madrid do not have a balanced strength, if they do then i think Barcelona could have been in the second position and with a little point difference from Real Madrid who is topping the league table but instead, Real Madrid has given them a clear gap of about 7 points. Although, judging from their El Clasico meetings, Barcelona appears more stronger than Real Madrid but i feel Real Madrid should be accorded more respect in the sense that when Barcelona was topping the league with quite some numbers of points, Real Madrid maintain their faith even when they were going through some challenging moments but they still came back stronger and now they are enjoying their stay at the top of the table same way Barcelona was enjoying the top of the table when the league was still young. Considering Barcelona's financial difficulties and some other challenging problems within the club, it will be hard to say that they can contend the title against Real Madrid now because Madrid don't look like they gonna give them that chance anytime soon.