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5. Real Madrid are better than Barcelona this season because of one striking aspect: Squad Depth
Every time Zinedine Zidane has had to depend on his “squad members” they’ve delivered for him. The Frenchman keeps insisting that he has no “B” team and Messrs. Asensio, Morata, Vazquez, Kovacic, James, Nacho, and Isco have proved their manager time and time again. At the other end of the spectrum Luis Enrique has not been able to depend on his so called “B” team... with Messrs. Turan, Alcacer, Gomes, Digne and Denis Suarez disappointing more often than not. This has enabled Zidane to amster the art of consistency, the one trait crucial to the success of a team over a long, gruelling, season.
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Look at it this way, whenever any of the aforementioned Madrid players have come into the first team, the club have been able to maintair their level of performance. Everytime one of Barca’s B team comes into the first XI, though, their overall performance has dipped considerably.
Despite having the favourable head-to-head record against Madrid, it is this one quality, this one aspect, that has Los Blancos looking all set for a historic league and European double while it appears for all the world that La Blaugrana will have to console themeselves with a shot at the Copa del Rey.
