After having a very comfortable game against Elche, Real Madrid are going to play against Osasuna away this time.
I expect this game to be more challenging. But on paper Real Madrid are very highly favourite side of course. When we look at their match history in Osasuna's stadium we can see that Real Madrid destroyed them most of the time. It has been more than ten years since Osasuna beat them there the last time. In addition to that Osasuna are having bad weeks recently. While Real Madrid are in good shape I think they will continue with another win. I just wonder whether Ancelotti will rotate the squad. Because there is a Liverpool game closing in.
It's not that Real Madrid is doing very well in the League, they have let Barcelona take a lot of advantage, I don't know if they allowed themselves to take that advantage out of confidence or because Ancelotti's strategy was not correct because they didn't give the results, In the same way they have a very hard job, I doubt very much that they can catch up with Barcelona, this time like the League got out of hand, the only hope they have is to win the UCL. and they can do it, they have the material, also if Ancelotti wins the UCL I think he would be saving his position at Real Madrid.
Barcelona will not give out their opportunity of becoming the La Liga champions once again.
If they would want to do it is not at this time that they are already close to Success.
The major factor that can make Barcelona to lose the title race to Real Madrid is injury.
But looking at the current squad of Barcelona, you will understand that almost all the players are available.
Barcelona players are not available. Most of their best players are out injured. They are without Lewandoski, Dembele, Pedri, Christensen and Gavi for the match against Valencia tomorrow due to a suspension. They are just seven points ahead of Madrid at the moment and a loss to Valencia will reduce that to four points if Madrid wins against Betis. Now here is the tricky part, Barca will play Bilboa next and we all know how much of a pain in the ass Bilboa can be to Barcelona. After Bilboa they will play Real Madrid. So if Barcelona don't handle the next three matches they have very well they could find themselves just one point ahead of Madrid or worst, below Madrid. They can only hope for Madrid to keep been inconsistent in the league.
Well, the truth is that the difference in points between Real Madrid and Barcelona has been cut a lot, we have to wait and see how Barcelona continues to play without its best players, that's where the best players and the best teams are when they don't it has its main stars, there you can see the results of the whole team, Barcelona has not done badly, they beat Madrid in the Copa del Rey showing very nice fútbol, they have an advantage in the League, the bad thing is that they are not in the Europa League, and if Real Madrid starts to play like before, to recover their good fútbol, I think they will be able to shorten the gap, it is the only chance they have.