Barcelona travel to the Bernabeu to face Real Madrid on Saturday night in the biggest game of the season so far, and we take a look at some of the match facts.
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The two sides have faced each other in 168 competitive games of which Real Madrid have won 70 to Barcelona's 66 with 32 games ending in draws.
In those 168 games Real Madrid have outscored Barcelona by nine goals – Madrid have bagged 274 goals to Barcelona's 265.
Real Madrid, however, have only won two of their last 12 league meetings with Barcelona (D2 L8).
Carlo Ancelotti's side have won their last five league games, scoring an average of five goals per game.
Barcelona have the opportunity to record the longest run of clean sheets in their league history (nine, currently eight).
The Catalan giants are unbeaten in 13 league games (W9 D4); their last defeat came back in April at Granada (1-0).
Barcelona are unbeaten in 11 league games against sides from Madrid (W8 D3), last losing to a team from the capital back in March 2013 (2-1 in the Bernabeu).
Between them, Neymar (eight) and Messi (seven) have scored the same number of league goals as Ronaldo (15) this term.
Real Madrid are the top scorers in the top five European leagues this season (30); Barca are the only side yet to concede.
Lionel Messi has scored 250 La Liga goals; he is just one behind the competition's all-time top scorer (Telmo Zarra, 251).
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored in 15 of his last 16 league appearances (24 goals).
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