Hansi Flick’s Barça is on the way out. It has reached cruising speed and at this point in the season, not yet three months into the competition, it can boast of being the best scoring team in Europe.
With 2-5 against Estrella Roja, Barça is now the top scorer in the Champions League (15 goals in 4 games), the top scorer in the Spanish League (40 in 12) and the one that scores the most in the continent’s main leagues. .
In historical terms, these stratospheric scoring records have broken records: Barça is already the highest scorer in the club’s 125 years of history (at this point in the season).
The Barça highest scorer in 125 years
The 55 goals in 16 games surpass those of Daucik and Kubala’s Barça of 1950-51 by one
With the 2-5 win in Belgrade in the third consecutive victory in the Champions League, Flick’s Barça reaches the figure of 55 goals in 16 official matches, which is 23 more goals than a year ago at this point. But compared to the other Barça of these 125 years of club history, this current team is the highest scorer. He has broken the historical record that Ferdinand Daucik and Kubala’s Barça had from the 1950-51 season, which scored 54 goals in 16 games. 74 years after that fledgling Five Cups team.
It also equals another historical record, from 64 years ago: that of three consecutive games in the Champions League (then European Cup) scoring four or more goals. Barça had achieved it for the last time in 1959-60, with the Kubalas, Luis Suárez and Ferran Olivella.
That year, according to the FC Barcelona website, the team led by Helenio Herrera, combined victories in the round of 16 of the European Cup against Milan (1-5), and in the two quarterfinal matches against Wolverhampton ( 4-0 and 2-5).
The most successful in Europe
In the six main leagues in Europe, Barça is the most productive team
With 15 goals in the 4 games played, Hansi Flick’s Barça is the most productive team in the Champions League. An average of 3.75 goals per game. The one that comes closest is Dortmund, with 13 goals (3.25). Barça has beaten Young Boys (5-0), Bayern (4-1) and Estrella Roja (2-5), and only scored one goal in its debut in Monaco (2-1).
In the context of the Spanish League, Barça is also the top scorer, with 40 goals in 12 games (3.3 goals on average), which is the highest record among the continent’s six main leagues. Only Bayern and PSV surpass it with better averages per game.
PSV comes close to Barça’s 40 goals in the Dutch Eredivisie with 37 goals in 11 games (3.36 average); Bayern with 32 in 9 games in Germany (3.55 average); PSG in the French Ligue 1 with 29 goals in 10 games (2.9); Atalanta in the Italian Serie A with 29 goals in 11 games (2.63); and Tottenham in the Premier with 22 goals in 10 games (2.2).
The 55 goals
This is how the Barça players distribute the goals
1. Lewandowski – 19 goals (in 16 games)
2. Raphinha – 12 goals (in 16 games)
3. Lamine Yamaha – 6 goals (in 16 games)
4. Dani Olmo – 5 goals (in 7 games)
5. Pedri – 3 goals (in 16 games)
6. Pablo Torre – 3 goals (in 3 games)
7. Iñigo Martínez – 2 goals (in 15 games)
8. Koundé – 1 goal
9. Pau Victor – 1 goal
10. Ferran Torres – 1 goal
11. Fermin – 1 goal
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