Between Tenerife and the "burning nail": Madrid, facing one of the most difficult comebacks in history

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• Chronicle Madrid leaves, before an inferior Atlético, the League wrapped in gift paper for Barça

Going back to

,

and

to win the Champions League last year, going back to

at

to secure the last

, going back to

to take a bite towards the continental quarterfinals this season... Real

de

does not understand his life without the adrenaline that turns a score around, but perhaps lifting the

title has become too uphill for him.

Even to Madrid itself.

Maybe...

Despite

, the blaugrana moved seven points away from the league lead.

An important distance that with

to go does not make them champions, but if one studies the history of all the fights for the trophy, that difference is usually almost definitive.

But of course, they talk to Madrid about "almost definitive" distances in the League...

Only once in the history of the League have

or more points been traced in a matchday greater than 23. Only once.

In the

season , Madrid itself, guided at the time by

, 'threw' the League after being

.

After a great first half of the course, the Galacticos lost in

, at home against

,

,

, in

and in

to hand over the title to those of

.

That is to say, for the League to change sides before matchday 38, Madrid will have to resort to its own history, to its own national misfortune.

You will be able to observe Queiroz and the

or you will be able to resort to one of your great traumas:

.

In 1992, Madrid lost the first of the

and did so after letting an eight-point lead escape.

Everything, in addition, in a championship that delivered only two points for each victory.

More meritorious than any other comeback.

More dramatic than any other league defeat.

However, in that campaign when Barça fell to eight points the fight was still on matchday 14. There was still more than half of the League to be held and the chances of the leader leaving points were much greater.

That year, Madrid lost in the

, in

, in

, in the

, in

, in

and finally in

to definitively hand over the title.

Unexpected defeats against lesser rivals on nights in which fear and tension played a differential leading role.

The 15 finals of Madrid and Barça

On this occasion, Barcelona,

, with the Cup semifinals as the only incentive outside the League and with the defeats at the Bernabéu and Almería as the only spots of the national season, will be able to focus comfortably on their league destinations. : will travel to

, to

against

, to

, to

, to

against Espanyol, to

and will close the League in

.

At the

the calendar could be more complicated: they will receive the

.

Madrid, for its part, will try to scratch Barça points in the League while trying to win another Champions League and lift a Cup that has resisted it for years.

Their league calendar does not give up:

at the Bernabéu.

The league history of the whites also has some surreal comebacks written, although only one comparable to the one necessary this season.

to lift the title from

, although the road began on matchday 8, and in 2006-2007, in one of the most memorable games, they managed to overcome Barça by five points in eight days.

It was

, the one with the "

", the example that these days flies over Madrid's head together with Tenerife and Queiroz's Galacticos.

Now another Italian coach needs his little miracle.

«

, but we will fight until the end, “Carlo Ancelotti analyzed on Saturday, although somewhat resigned.

's seriousness

in the Bernabéu press room after the derby reflected the importance of each day.

Barça fell in Almería and

saved a point against Atlético, but the coach knows that to win the title they cannot afford one more puncture.

If he falls this Sunday at Villamarín and Barça beats Valencia at home,

.

Only one team came back from

to win the championship, Van Gaal's Barça against Mallorca in 1999, and nobody, ever, turned around a ten-point difference with the leader.

As of now, there are

for Barça and Madrid with the classic on March 19 at the Camp Nou as the definitive turning point.

A 45 point fight

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