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REAL MADRID | BARCELONA

Barça's MSN dependency grows, as Madrid show sharing is caring

Barcelona have become increasingly reliant on goals scored by Messi, Suarez and Neymar this season, while Real Madrid are seeing a much wider distribution amongst squad members.

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Barça's MSN dependency grows, as Madrid show sharing is caring

Sevilla - Real Madrid

While FC Barcelona have increased their dependence on Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar (or the MSN), Real Madrid players on the other hand are sharing their responsibility for the number of goals scored for more widely.

12 Madrid players with 4+ goals

Goals: BBC vs MSN

Cristiano17Messi26
Benzema11Luis Suárez16
Bale7Neymar7
Total BBC35Total MSN49
Total Real Madrid83Total Barcelona79
42,17%62,03%

*Real Madrid have played 29 official games to Barcelona's 28

The contribution of the Barça trident to Luis Enrique's team’s goal record this season is almost 20 percentage points higher than Los Blancos’ first choice trio (The ‘BBC’ of Bale, Benzema and Cristiano). The MSN have netted 62.03% of the Catalan club’s total goals; while the BBC’s ratio is 42.17%.

The scoring ability of Madrid’s squad has allowed Zidane to cope with injuries to all three of the BBC at some point during this campaign, with Fabio Coentrao the only outfield player not to find the net since the 2016/17 season got underway. In fact, a dozen Real Madrid players have scored four or more goals.

7 Barca players yet to find the net 

 The distribution of Barcelona goalscorers is more concentrated. Behind Messi (26) and Suarez (16), Arda Turan is the player with the next highest amount of goals with 11. However, aside from those three, just 26 goals have come from 11 other first-team players (the same amount that Messi has bagged on his own) while seven players in total have not scored at all.

Total goal distribution: Real Madrid v Barcelona

REAL MADRIDGOALSBARCELONA
26Messi
Cristiano17
16Luis Suárez
Benzema11Arda Turan
Morata9
Bale7Neymar
Asensio6Rafinha

Ramos

Mariano

5

Varane

James

Isco

4
3

Rakitic

Piqué

Carvajal

Danilo

Lucas V.

Kovacic

Nacho

Kroos

Marcelo

Pepe

Modric

Casemiro

Enzo Zidane

1

Digne

Alcácer

Jordi Alba

Iniesta

Mathieu

Aleñá

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