I was sure Barcelona would win. And I placed my bet on Barcelona winning. Barcelona has shown dominance in the last matches between these two teams. Real Madrid is a strong team but they have shown poor performances against Barcelona in the last few matches. Barcelona has probably won 4 of their last 5 matches against Madrid. Barcelona's overall performance in this match was better than Real Madrid's. The players of the team attacked a lot. However, they scored the second goal after 90 minutes of extra time. I expected a better performance from Lewandowski. But he did not play well.
It is a controversy win for Barcelona in the El Classico but they now have 12 points ahead of Real Madrid. They nearly win La Liga in this season and I think Real Madrid have to accept that they fail to protect their crown in La Liga this season. They will have to turn their focus completely toward Champions League firstly with quarter final matches over Chelsea.
Barcelona simply played perfectly in La Liga and this season gives us a shocked statistics about their defense in La Liga. They have very little conceded goals but it does not mean their defense is too strong as in Europe from Champions League to Europa League, they were more vulnerable and got more conceded goals. However in La Liga, their defense is like rock.
Real Sociedad 2 - 0 Elche
everything indicates that Elche will be relegated, I don't see any hope for them to change the bad results they are going through, it's sad but they will be relegated, they have only 13 points in 20 games, and they don't have any chance of changing this scenario , while Real Sociedad are in a position where they can play in the Champions League, of course for that they will need to win the games ahead, but they are in luck because Betis, Villareal are unstable
This win helps Real Sociedad to maintain their gaps with Atletico Madrid (3 points less) and Real Betis (3 points more). They are currently holding the fourth position but still have chance to climb to a third position as well as have risk to fall to fifth position. 12 more matches left and the race for last 2 positions in top four is still very hot with participation of 3 clubs.