Barcelona close in on Real Madrid's goalscoring throne Barcelona One behind Los Blancos

Barcelona have been closing the gap on Real Madrid in recent years in terms of trophies, and now they could be on the verge of overtaking their greatest rivals on the goalscoring front.

While Los Blancos (33) still have six more league titles than Barcelona (27), they could be about to surrender their lead in goals scored.

Real Madrid have had a higher total of league goals since moving ahead of Barcelona in the 1962/63 season. By the end of that campaign, Los Blancos had scored 1981 league goals compared to the Blaugrana's 1958.

Ever since then, Real Madrid have always had a higher total. In fact, they had a lead of 139 goals at the end of the 1989/90 season.

When Cristiano Ronaldo left for Juventus in the summer of 2018, Real Madrid still had an advantage of 42 league goals.

Now, Barcelona are just one goal behind Real Madrid's current tally of 6,137 and could draw level and overtake their great rivals this weekend.