With the victory in front of the Athletic of Madrid, the FC Barcelona added 41 points in LaLiga Santander that have allowed him reach the leadership in solitary of the competition, by in front of the Real Madrid (38). The Barcelona left a performance 'solve' in which the defensive forcefulness was key to return home with three points that approach more to the team to the dream to win the tournament suspender belt.

It is a big step for the blaugrana, that carried several years starred by the disappointments in LaLiga. Without going further, in the last season lived a 'nightmare' regarding the difference of points with the Real Madrid, that proclaimed champion with 86 points, with 13 points of advantage on the second position, occupied by the Barça (73). The course still is in full dispute and remains a long way to know to the winner, but the culés have a lot of are of titles.

The case is that in this last year, from the arrival of Xavi Hernández in November, has noticed 'brutally' the difference for the Barça regarding the quantity of points that has added to the team. Further that the egarense has left backwards to his 'ancestors', also is signing numbers that equalise him with the 'big'.

And it is that, without going much more there, in the 43 parties of League that have contested from the arrival of the egarense to the bench of the Barça, the culés have added exactly the same quantity of points that the Real Madrid of Carlo Ancelotti (93). For the moment, it has served for 'trace back' until the second position in the past course (after being of ninth) and have reached the leadership in the present.

A League 'separate'

In this quantity of parties, in which the two 'big' have added the same points, in 'ACE' remember that in the end of the 21-23, from the llegade Xavi, the Madrid only added three points more than the Barça (59 vs. 56, in front of the 38 vs. 41 of this) and that, in the global computation, the White House has marked more goals (88 vs. 84), but has fit more (34 vs. 29).