• Classification: Atlético continues to lead

A year ago now, the distance between Real Madrid, then leader of LaLiga, and the fourth place in the table, occupied by Real Sociedad, reached 13 points, almost double the number of today seven that today separate Atlético from Seville.

Two seasons ago, after the 24-game match, that same difference between the first and the fourth was estimated at 17 points.

And it makes three, in 16. This glance at the numbers is enough to explain one of the few consolations that our championship can boast of today.

We are talking about balsam because the best teams in Spain, whose level has been questioned during the recent Champions League qualifiers, will be forced to settle their differences in a scenario that seems most exciting.

It all starts tomorrow, with the visit of Barcelona to Sevilla (4:15 pm), although it will not be convenient to blink in any of the remaining 14 days.

He knows well what the Barça team is playing at Pizjuán, since after its last 0-0, last June, it was sliding inch by inch towards catastrophe.

The league leadership changed hands and six weeks later, Bayern took over the wreck.

Of course, the recent 2-0 of the Cup semifinals supports

Julen Lopetegui

.

As true as that he will face

Leo Messi

, author of 37 goals in 41 games against Sevilla: 29 in LaLiga, two in the Cup, four in the Super Cup and two in the European Super Cup.

The derby of March 7

Atlético and Real Madrid will be very attentive to what happens tomorrow afternoon, with almost antagonistic feelings after their European week.

The team of

Diego Simeone

, who comes from adding only five of the last 15 possible points in the domestic tournament, left a bad image against Chelsea.

The whites did not convince at all in Bergamo, although

Ferland Mendy's

goal

left access to the quarters lined up.

In addition, the four consecutive victories in the League, despite not being able to count on many starters, open a crack to optimism.

With three more points and one game less, Atlético still have to play at Camp Nou, Pizjuán, San Mamés and Villamarín.

As a first measure,

El Cholo will

have to stop a streak of eight consecutive league games by conceding, an unusual event in his career in Madrid.

Jan Oblak's

16 goals in 24 days

represent a discreet balance for a team in 2018 that had only received nine at this stage of the championship.

In any case, the derby on March 7 at the Metropolitano (4:15 pm) seems much more crucial than any statistics.

Neither is

Zinedine Zidane

, who will receive Barça and Seville in Valdebebas, in addition to paying visits in two places of maximum demand, such as Granada and Bilbao.

Matchday 35 will not only host this aforementioned Real Madrid-Sevilla, but also Barça-Atlético.

The only options for the Catalans, who still have to travel to Villarreal, San Sebastián and Ciutat de Valencia, go through Messi's remarkable moment (13 goals in 2021).

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