• Real Madrid Without goal against Betis (0-0)
  • Barcelona, ​​a wax team against Levante (3-1)
  • Atlético. Half in the Pizjuán (1-1)

At the moment, the only thing that Barcelona and Real Madrid have in common with their respective versions of 13 seasons ago (2006/07) are Leo Messi and Sergio Ramos . Only they have endured (and left over) the onslaught of time. Both, today parents, already defended their current colors when LaLiga last crowned a team with less than 80 points. That Real Madrid of Fabio Capello squeezed every minute of the exercise to win the title thanks to the goal difference with Barcelona by Frank Rijkaard. Ramos and his companions bathed in Cibeles with a payroll of 76 points that today, after more than a decade of big binge scoring, is perceived discreetly . In Atlético, the only power alternative (won LaLiga 2013/14), no one survives those days.

The fact is that late on Saturday, Real Madrid wondered how he had not been able to score a goal against Betis in the Santiago Bernabéu. Barcelona tried to explain why its 10 minutes of fatal disconnection against Levante. And Atlético cursed his luck in Sánchez-Pizjuán, after his sixth draw in the last eight games. As if none of the three really cared about this League. «Every day it is more difficult to win any rival. Levante beat Barça, which shows that you cannot win any game ”, was the exhibition of Sergio Ramos , minutes after consummating the 0-0 that was his fourth X of the season. With that point, Barça and Madrid were left with 22. On top of the general -paralleled with Real Sociedad-, but with 22. Two points per day, in the absence of what the classic postponed in the Camp Nou says. Only one more than Diego Simeone's worst Athletic League.

"The rivals play you as if it were one of the games of the year and you have to have answers," was the interpretation of the matter for Ernesto Valverde, coach of Barça, for which the numbers are not so strange. The score of his team is almost as concise as last season where, after 12 days, they ruled in the standings, although with only 24 points (three draws and two losses) . With one less, Atlético counted and only 20 had an unstable Real Madrid, which Santiago Solari tried to redirect after the dismissal of Julen Lopetegui, two days ago, after the win received at the Camp Nou (5-1). Until May, Barcelona would only lose one more game (in Vigo, three final dates) and end up conquering the title with 87, 11 above Atlético and 19 more than the team that was already back in Zidane's hands. .

The 100 points of Mourinho and Tito Vilanova

Although there is still a good loot to distribute (81 points for Madrid and Barça and 78 for the rest), the sensations that the three transmit on the grass invite you to think of one of those short leagues of past times. Nothing to do with those round conquests of 100 points that encrusted the work of José Mourinho (2011/12) in Madrid and the late Tito Vilanova (2012/13) with Barcelona . The Simeone boys needed 90 to break the bank in the famous red and white 2013/14 course. None of the three is even close to those days of glitter. "This competitiveness makes the League the best in the world," summarized Ramos.

Since the arrival of the then revolutionary three-point system for victory, in the 1995/96 season, a few champions have left their shield engraved below that 80-point threshold. Although none like that Deportivo de la Coruña by Javier Irureta, winner in 1999/00 with only 69 . Nothing like it has been seen. Valencia in Benitez also liked that the figures in the classification were not exorbitant to take two leagues in three seasons (2001/02 and 2003/04). And before that last time in 2007, even in the 90s, Barça held two championships in a row (1997/98, with 74 and 1998/99, with 79). Zidane also knows what that is. In the farewell of Del Bosque, he won as a player on 2002/03 with 78.

The scoring weaknesses of the three greats have triggered the illusions of a handful of aspirants who dream of looking in the mirror of that Depor or that Valencia. Granada has already been seen at the top and Sevilla and Real Sociedad are sniffing just in case. In twilight time, any small light allows you to see the road.

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