Barcelona v Real Madrid: El Clasico in numbers

Barcelona entertains arch-rivals Real Madrid at Camp Nou on Saturday in a Clasico that could well have major ramifications in the race for the Liga title.

Madrid heads to Catalunya knowing that defeat will see it slip 13 points adrift of defending champion Barca, a difference that could prove too difficult to close in the seven subsequent fixtures.

Barcelona entertains arch-rivals Real Madrid at Camp Nou on Saturday in a Clasico that could well have major ramifications in the race for the Liga title.

Third-placed Madrid heads to Catalunya knowing that defeat will see it slip 13 points adrift of defending champion Barca, a difference that could prove too difficult to close in the seven subsequent fixtures.

Here, courtesy of Opta, we take a look at the key statistics ahead of the resumption of one of football's greatest rivalries:

- Barca has never won a league game against Real Madrid when top of the competition and holding an advantage of 10 points or more (D1 L2).

1 - Barca has lost just one of its last seven league games at home against Madrid, winning five. Its only defeat in that run was a 2-1 loss in April 2012.

3.22 - In 171 matches between the two sides, the average of goals scored per game is just higher than three, though the most common result is 2-1 to Real Madrid, which has occurred 18 times previously.

4 - The last four red cards in matches in all competitions between the two teams were all shown to Madrid players.

LUIS ENRIQUE v ZINEDINE ZIDANE

1 - Saturday's match will be the first meeting between Luis Enrique and Zinedine Zidane in their coaching careers. The latter will be making his Clasico bow in the dugout.

2 - Zidane scored three goals against Barca in all competitions during his time as a player with Madrid, two of those coming when lining up against Luis Enrique.

5 - Luis Enrique and Zidane met five times in all competitions during their playing careers, winning one game apiece (D3).

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14 - Lionel Messi has scored 14 goals in 19 La Liga matches against Real Madrid, twice as many as Cristiano Ronaldo - though the Portuguese has featured in six games fewer.

20 - Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar have scored a cumulative 20 La Liga goals against Madrid, while Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema and Ronaldo have managed just 12 - Bale is yet to register against Barca in La Liga.

38 - Suarez has been involved in more goals (26 goals, 12 assists) than any other player in La Liga this season, Ronaldo is second with 28 strikes and nine assists.