Genuine Madrid's ultras argued pre-coordinate for a white Christmas, however rather they got themselves solidified out of La Liga's title race, 14 focuses hapless of Barcelona who beat them soundly 3-0 at the Bernabeu.
Second-half objectives from Luis Suarez, Lionel Messi and, with the last kick of the amusement Aleix Vidal, didn't simply expand the cushion that Barca have on Madrid, it made that hole for all intents and purposes unbridgeable and Barcelona head into the second 50% of their season knowing their endless opponents are route back in the back view reflect.
This wasn't a diversion they overwhelmed in the conventional sense however it was one where, once ahead, they looked totally in charge. In any case, it is significant that it was the hosts who had the better of a bitty first half where the two sides appeared to be more fixated on preventing the other from making than creating anything advantageous themselves.
Mateo Kovacic was an unexpected incorporation and he spent a significant part of the main half completing a man-stamping work on Lionel Messi, however it implied Gareth Bale, Marco Asensio and Isco all needed to make due with places on the seat.
Therefore, the initial 45 minutes or so of this clásico did not have the kind of rankling assaulting play which we for the most part anticipate from the installation. It was an exemplary by name yet not by nature until the point when a moment a large portion of that feels like it may have won Barca the title and it's not by any means January yet.
Kovacic's steady Messi-checking part was the most captivating strategic part of this diversion yet the opening objective arrived in a section of play where Messi didn't touch the ball. Kovacic, the Argentine's shadow, tailed him yet left a vast gap in the focal point of the recreation center and when Sergio Busquets crushed the ball to Ivan Rakitic, there was green grass for the Barca man to keep running into.
With alternatives right and left, Rakitic went appropriate to Sergi Roberto who himself went left, clearing a low cross to the far post for Luis Suarez to pound home.
The Uruguayan didn't have his best diversion and he looks to have lost the blast off the stamp that made him such a risk when turning protectors. However, his complete was immaculate, holding Keylor Navas with his eyes and placing Madrid stuck a sticky situation.
Zinedine Zidane's future will no uncertainty be the subject of hypothesis this week, and had it been an alternate mentor responsible for Real Madrid then you think about whether they may have been sacked as of now. Zidane played a protective side for a home clásico that his group just needed to win. They didn't
Rafael Benitez did basically a similar thing and was jobless in no time a short time later. Rafa didn't have consecutive Champions League titles to point to however it will be an awkward Christmas period for the Frenchman whatever happens.
Barcelona multiplied their lead in a wild section of play where they ought to have scored twice and seemed to do as such at any rate, just for the arbitrator to blow his shriek and reject Dani Carvajal. The full-back had taken care of hanging in the balance to keep an objective and there was just a single result. Messi covered the punishment to start a mass migration from the Bernabeu and hand Barca an apparently unassailable lead over their most-despised opp onion
Madrid tossed on Bale and Marco Asensio yet at no time did there seem, by all accounts, to be any kind of plan or structure to their assault. Barcelona joyfully backed off whatever is left of the amusement and baffled their hosts, including a third objective late in procedures when a great part of the home help were at that point sat on the Madrid metro, shooting far from the Santiago Bernabeu.