“We have lacked success, I think it is a matter of one day,” Pedri reflected after Barça’s defeat in Anoeta (1-0), the second in the League. The canary was not wrong: the match at the Reale Arena was strange, beyond the stumble and the result. And the Blaugrana team did not shoot on goal. Not once in the 90 minutes. And that is very rare. It had not happened to him for ten years in the League.
A new record for Flick’s Barça, which had set a record after Belgrade’s 2-5: the best scoring start (55 in 16 games) in the club’s 125-year history.
70% possession
Lewandowski and Raphinha are two of the four players who shoot the most on goal in the League
Barça stayed in San Sebastián without a shot on goal in a La Liga match for the first time since September 24, 2014, when they tied in Málaga (0-0). That team led by Luis Enrique, with Messi, Neymar, Iniesta or Rakitic on the pitch, had 69% ball possession, but did not create a single chance. In Anoeta, Flick’s Barça, with Lewandowski and Raphinha, two of the four players who shoot the most, had 70% possession.
Raphinha did not see the door
The data, which illustrates the Blaugrana’s bad night in Anoeta, is curious, since Barça is the team that shoots the most in the League between the three sticks: it has 90 shots on goal (6.92 per game), 16 more than the second team, Real Madrid (74, with one game less).
Furthermore, he is the one who shoots the most (161 shots, 12.38 per game) and the one who scores the most (40), that is, one goal for every four shots. And it has three of the four players who shoot the most in the entire championship: Lewandowski (38), the most; the third, Lamine Yamal (29) -absent in Anoeta-; and the fourth, Raphinha (28).
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