El Clásico and many records (The New Arab)
meet Real Madrid and Barcelona in Classico New to Spanish football on Sunday in the 29th round of the league at the “Santiago Bernabeu” stadium, where history has always witnessed many records for the meeting that fans of the round witch around the world are waiting for.
Real Madrid has won the El Clasico
Real Madrid have won the most El Clásico matches with 100 out of 247 matches, with 5 more wins than Barcelona. El Clásico ended in a tie 52 times. Real Madrid scored a total of 414 goals in El Clasico matches, compared to 401 for Barcelona.
Messi and Ramos are the most favorites in the Clasico
The Argentinian Lionel Messi and the Spanish Sergio Ramos, the Paris Saint-Germain players are currently the most played in El Clasico matches, with 45 matches, with three meetings, more than Paco Gento, Manuel Sanchez, Xavi Hernandez and Sergio Busquets. These are followed by Gerard Pique with 39 games, one match more than French Karim Benzema.
Messi is the all-time top scorer in El Clasico
Lionel Messi is the all-time top scorer in El Clasico matches with a total of 26 goals, eight more than his compatriot Alfredo Di Stefano and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Among the current players of the two teams, Benzema is the most scored with 11 goals, knowing that he occupies the ninth place in the overall ranking of Clasico scorers, which he shares with Uruguayan Luis Suarez, former Barcelona player and Atlético Madrid currently.
Ansu Fati is the youngest scorer
On October 24, 2020, Barcelona striker Ansu Fati became the youngest player to score in the Clasico, at the age of 17 years and 359 days, to break the record held by the Spanish Roger Garcia with Barcelona and Raul Gonzalez with Real Madrid, who scored in the Clasico when they were 18 of their age. And Ansu, who is currently injured, had become the youngest player to play El Clasico for the first time in the 21st century when he was 17 years and 48 days old.
Real Madrid has the highest score in El Clasico
Real Madrid achieved the largest result in the history of El Clásico matches, on June 13, 1943, in the second leg of the King’s Cup semi-final, when it swept its rival 11-1. And in the El Clasico matches in “La Liga”, Real Madrid also has the largest result with 8-2 in a match dating back to the third of February 1935.
Real Madrid are two wins away from their best streak
Real Madrid, who have won the last five Clasicos, are two victories away from tying their best streak once morest their eternal rivals. Between April 22, 1962 and February 28, 1965, the “Royal” team won seven Clasico matches in a row, the first in the Cup and the other in the “La Liga”. On the other hand, Barcelona is still far from the equation of the worst Clásico series without a win, which it witnessed between the third of March 2001 and the sixth of December 2003, with eight confrontations in which it did not taste the taste of victory.
Veteran player Dani Alves
The return of Brazilian Dani Alves to Barcelona allowed him to participate in the semi-finals of the Spanish Super Cup in Riyadh on January 12, becoming the oldest player to play the Clasico at the age of 38 years and 251 days, 92 days ahead of Spaniard Manuel Pinto and 223 days over Paco Buyo.
Benzema, the fastest goal
Benzema is unique in being the player who scored the fastest goal in the history of El Clásico matches with his goal in the 21st second of the meeting that was held on December 10, 2011 at the “Santiago Bernabeu” stadium, the stronghold of Real, in a confrontation in which “Barca” rose up and settled in his favour, with a score of 3- 1.
2-1 for Real Madrid .. the most frequent result
Real Madrid’s 2-1 or 1-2 victory is the most frequent result in El Clasico matches, with 25 times more than the 1-1 draw, according to EFE.
