Real Madrid vs Barcelona: who has won more Clásicos in their history?

Madrid and Barça face off at the Santiago Bernabéu in LaLiga on Sunday after contrasting fortunes in the Champions League.

Real Madrid against Barcelona is without doubt one of the stand-out games in world soccer, with the rivalry between the LaLIga giants as fierce as ever after 256 previous Clásico meetings. Familiarity, as they say, breeds contempt.

On Sunday at Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, Carlo Ancelotti’s team will have the opportunity to all but secure a second successive league title. A victory in the Spanish capital will see Madrid move 11 points clear of second-placed Barça with six matches to play, a gap which would surely be too big for Xavi Hernández’s side to make up.

If the Catalans are to have any hope of catching their bitter rivals, they simply have to win. However, they go into the weekend match on the back of Champions League quarter-final disappointment, namely a 4-1 home thrashing at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain, a result heavily influenced by Ronald Araújo’s red card in the first half. The Uruguayan will be able to play at the Bernabéu despite his misdemeanours.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, are on a high after eliminating Premier League leaders Manchester City at the same stage of the competition, prevailing in a penalty shootout after a backs-to-the-wall defensive performance.

In the 256 competitive Clásicos that have been played since the first in February 1929, there has been little to separate the teams. Overall, Madrid lead the way with 104 victories to Barça’s 100 (with 52 draws), Los Blancos pulling clear recently thanks to three wins in a row.

At the Bernabéu, the setting for Sunday’s game, Real Madrid have won 67 of 123 Clásicos, with Barcelona winning in the capital on 31 occasions, in