The only people who were satisfied by the outcome of the first Clasico of the season were likely the authorities. A fixture fraught with political tension and the potential for protests and disruption passed off as peacefully as could have been expected–at least inside Camp Nou.
The game itself, though, was frenetic and untidy. Real Madrid had the better of the first half and Barcelona the better of the second, but with both struggling for rhythm and precision, the result was the first goalless league Clasico since 2002.
The game had initially been scheduled for October 26, before being rearranged because of the protests that followed the imprisonment of nine Catalan nationalist leaders.