Barça 'fights' face to face against Madrid for being the team that 'plays' the most in LaLiga

The FC Barcelona has stood out like one of the groups with greater time of effective game in this month of December in LaLiga. The Barcelona picture has 58% of effectiveness in this appearance, what equivale to an average of 58:20 minutes of time of game, situating as the second team with better registers in this section, according to the data of the skilled account in statistics of the Spanish football, 'OptaJose'.

The Real Madrid leads this ranking, surpassing to the Barça with an effective time of game average of 60:16 minutes, that is to say, 60.5%. This figure calls powerfully the attention, since, in spite of being the highest register, only play with regularity 60 minutes in a meeting of 90', what reflects the interrupted that are used to to be the commitments of LaLiga.

This backs the request of Xavi Hernández on the time of game: "we Need effective time in the football, are doing the ridiculous", affirmed after the clash between the Barcelona and the Getafe, that marked the starting point in the local contest. Although the meeting lasted 116 minutes, only played sure enough 60, whereas the others 56 were detained by losses of time, lacking, reviews of the VAR, changes.

60:16 - The @realmadrid is the team of @LaLiga 2023/24 whose parties have greater effective time (60:16), whereas the parties of the @Cadiz_CF are in which they play fewer minutes of average (52:01). December. pic.twitter.com/5jy2dappfd

— OptaJose (@OptaJose) December 23, 2023

The Girona and the Athletic of Madrid do not remain backwards

The Girona FC complete the podium with a time average of game of 57:53 minutes (57.3%), whereas the Athletic situates in the fourth position with 56:52 (57.2%). This is on line with the actuality of LaLiga, since these are the better teams positioned in the domestic tournament Spanish and those that have showed to deploy a more fluent game and less trabado.

On the other hand, it is not of obviar the fact that the Real Sociedad, that occupies the sixth place in the classification and is used to to deploy a good game, was one of the teams that enjoys of less time of effective game, with a total of 52:09 minutes (52.2%), only surpassed by very little by the Cádiz CF with 52:01 (50.9%).