soccer: barcelona is currently better than real madrid

what it has to do with what's going on currently is that 2008 was the year both teams began to experience change. 1. Real Madrid saw a huge overhaul of their team after the 2008-2009 season. Only 4 of their starting XI from that season still play for them. That summer Madrid sold 88.5 million Euros of players and bought 259 million euros worth of players.(1) Any team that loses the likes of Huntlerlaar, Robben, Heize, Cannavaro and Van Nistelrooy whilst gaining the likes of Kaka, Ronaldo, Benzema and Alonso is going to be a radically different team. Barcelona won those 6 titles not only several years ago but also against a much different Real Madrid team. The Barcelona team was not even completely the same with as I mentioned before neither Henry or Eto'o still playing for Barcelona. In fact Real Madrid went from finishing 9 points behind Barcelona in 2008 to finishing 3 points behind them in 2009. With that said they had the skill to move past that and win 6 consecutive cups/leagues proving they are the best. 2. Or more appropriately that they were the best. Barcelona is a slightly different team now, whilst Madrid is a much improved team now. Especially in Europe the strength of teams have change dramatically since 2008, as I stated before Manchester City finished 40 points behind Man U in the premiership of the season Barcelona won 6 titles.(2) The 6 titles that Barcelona won in 2008 is irrelevant to Barcelona Real Madrid discussions today. 2009 was the year where they only obtained one trophy but they did hell of a lot better than Madrid. 3. Barcelona had only really swapped Eto'o for Ibrahimovic by this point as I mentioned earlier Real Madrid saw practically the whole team change. With the amount of player changes, with almost all coming from different teams and leagues it is going to take time to adjust. It is also worth noting that Madrid only came 3 points behind Barcelona and scored more despite the lack of playing time as a new team. they won both matches and that tie was their win 4-3. 4. They won a match and drew the other. As you stated yourself concerning Real Madrid in the first game ,"they scored the first goal then decided to play defensively the entire game giving the opportunity to Barcelona to try and score as many goals as possible.," making it sound as if Madrid made a tactical mistake rather than being an inferior team. In the second leg Sergio Rammos had a goal disallowed which I thought should have stood, of course this was before either of Madrid's accepted goals so it is extremely difficult to judge what would have happened. Goal.com even stated that Madrid were the better side during the opening half and Barcelona's goals were against the run of play(3). None of the recent games between the sides have shown a clear superiority for Barcelona. The fact still remains that real Madrid needs to start playing more as a team than separate players. 5. Barcelona scored 148 goals last season, 98 of which came from the trio of Messi, Pedro and Villa. That's 66% of al their goals by 3 players. Real Madrid scored 146 goals last season. 92 of which came from their 3 top scorer which is 62%. Rather simply the point is that Barcelona are no more cohesive as a team than Madrid is currently. Back in 2009 when this New Madrid team had only just been formed this may have been true, but now it is no longer the case. messi on the other hand is much better at technique, the ability to create an opportunity to score goals 6. In last season's La Liga Messi scored 31 goals and had 18 assists or rather simply created 49 goals . Whilst Ronaldo had 40 goals and 10 assists or created 50 goals in a way(4). These are statistics of the two when they have played the same teams in the same number of games. Obviously technique is a matter of debate but look at that video and state that Ronaldo isn't one of the best in the world technically.. http://www.youtube.com... If we look at the true hard facts between both teams Barcelona is currently better. 7. Madrid is 5 points ahead of Barcelona; that is a fact. Madrid has a better goal difference in La Liga, which is also a fact. Madrid did better in the group stages of the Champions league this year. They have two Fifa player of the year winners on their team compared to Barcelona's one. They have scored more goals in La Liga for the past 3 years( comparing other competitions would be less useful due to them playing different teams) proving they have the more effective attacking play. 3 Real Madrid defenders are on the Spanish national team compared to Barcelona's two(5). This is in spite of the fact that 3 of Madrid's defenders are not Spanish whilst Barcelona has only 2 non Spanish defenders. . These are all cold hard facts backing Real Madrid as being the better team currently. (1) http://en.wikipedia.org... (2) http://www.goalzz.com... (3) http://www.goal.com... (4) http://www.totalfootballforums.com... (5) http://en.wikipedia.org...