Historic 'Blow': Edu Aguirre Mercilessly Humiliates Barça from 'El Chiringuito'

Real Madrid faced a very important game for its competitive future in the Champions League this season and didn't fail. The thrashing of RB Salzburg serves to remain eligible in the round of 16 of the European competition and to regain confidence after the defeat in the Spanish Supercopa final.

While it is true that Madrid is far from enjoying a comfortable situation both in LaLiga and the Champions, Edu Aguirre is clear about it. Ancelotti's pupils can win the top national competition this season with some ease, ignoring their closest rivals such as Atlético de Madrid and Barcelona.

This is what he'd have pointed out to José Álvarez in his face-off on El Chiringuito de Jugones: "Barcelona thinks it's going to win LaLiga". He also recalls that "in November, it was truly believed that it was the world's best soccer and that Lamine was the world's best player. And that everything was wonderful". Time has considerably moderated those expectations.

It has also served to disprove that "Mbappé's Madrid was going to crash", a thesis that many Barça fans held as true after the irregular start of the Bondy striker. Despite everything, "now sadly Madrid is going to win LaLiga in your face. Madrid, at half throttle", warns Edu, has regained the first position.

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The debate with José Álvarez didn't end there. "The worst Madrid of recent years, the one that gets along super badly and Mbappé is terrible, is the one that's going to win LaLiga in your face. Madrid, at half throttle against this Barça, is going to embarrass you in LaLiga" judging by what happened in recent matches.

The draw of Flick's pupils at the Coliseum, against Getafe, further reduces the chances of the Barcelona entity to fight for the leadership of LaLiga. Because right now the entity from the Ciudad Condal is seven points behind the merengue team, a distance that could be definitive if there is no radical change in both clubs.

Meanwhile, Edu Aguirre acknowledges about Real Madrid that "then in the Champions you can see" what the team's performance is. It's not for less, since the results in the league phase of the top continental competition are far from what the white fans expected for the current season. "In LaLiga, Madrid has much more solvency than Barcelona", Edu concludes.

"It's something I understand hurts you, you have acid there" for having squandered an important eight-point advantage over the then second-placed team. At the same time, "you've started the locomotive of Laporta leaving, Flick leaving, and the captain leaving. We know it. 'They don't let us win', 'it's LaLiga', 'Tebas who is a Madrid'...", common arguments among Barcelona supporters during and after each defeat that occurred in LaLiga.