There are so many goals that we have cridat. It is one of the stanzas of Cant del Barça, the anthem that was composed for the 75th anniversary of the Blaugrana club. The letter was not at all misguided. Because Barça’s playing style has always been to want to be the protagonist, play on the attack and score goals. Volem the pilotnow summarizes the motto of the entity’s 125th anniversary. And coinciding with that anniversary, Hansi Flick has recovered a hidden record.
The German coach, in his objective to restore the status lost in recent years by the club, has returned Barça to the top as the highest scoring team in the history of the First Division. The 40 goals he scored in the first third of the League have achieved the comeback.
On September 15
With Montilivi’s four goals, the Blaugrana returned to the lead they lost last season
The Blaugrana, who finished the last championship six goals behind the 6,483 that Real Madrid had, now have a nine-goal advantage, although the whites have a visit to Mestalla pending. The good understanding of the team’s new trident and the great form in which Lewandowski, Raphinha and Lamine Yamal are in – they scored the four goals at the Bernabéu (0-4) – have catapulted Flick’s men to defend a leadership that could have been boost in the Messi era.
Only in one game, the last one, in San Sebastián, has Barça gone without scoring (1-0), which this season has an average of more than three goals per game. At the moment, the Blaugrana attack is working better than the forward line made up of Vinícius, Mbappé and Bellingham.
Nine goals away
In the 94 editions of the League, Barça has scored 6,517 goals compared to 6,508 for Real Madrid
It is the eternal dispute. Barcelona and Madrid are always opposite each other. They are rivals every year. For the titles but not only on the playing field. They cross paths in the offices and in some courts and fight over signings like those of Neymar, Beckham or Karembeu.
Although the Blaugrana club has won fewer leagues (27) than Real Madrid (36), Barça has celebrated more goals. Currently the total number is 6,517, after Lewandowski scored against Getafe (on September 25) the club’s 6,500th in the history of the League.
474 goals in the Argentine League
When Messi debuts, Barça is 79 goals behind Madrid. When Leo leaves in 2021, he is 19 goals ahead
The surprise occurred ten days before. With the four goals in Montilivi (1-4), Barça snatched the position of leader and historic top scorer from a Madrid that the day before had defeated Real Sociedad 2-0. That day in Girona, in addition to Lamine Yamal, Dani Olmo and Pedri, two midfielders with arrivals, scored.
In reality the big blow has been more of a recovery. Well, the Blaugrana had already established themselves at the top during the 2019-20 season and had been at the top for four seasons, until they lost it in the final stretch of last year with Xavi on the bench.
In 89-90
The Quinta del Buitre manages to open the maximum gap: 139 goals, which Cruyff, as coach, later cuts
The two big clubs in Spain also clashed with the incorporation of Di Stéfano. Precisely, the controversial outcome was what caused a change in history.
At most, Barça topped that list 13 consecutive seasons. It was between the 1947-48 academic year and 1959-60. When he reached the highest position he already had Basra and César on his staff. Then came Moreno (1950), Kubala and Manchón (1951), the famous Barça forward of the Zinc Copes immortalized by Serrat. With them, what remains the maximum difference in favor of the Blaugrana is achieved: 43 goals at the end of 1953-54.
The key
The Barça of the ‘Cinc Copes’ was the leader until the controversial signing of Di Stéfano changed the tables
However, Di Stéfano’s landing in Chamartín is key, a turning point. The whites are, little by little, closing the gap until in the eighth Saeta campaign they take over the leadership for more than half a century.
Twice Barcelona came close to ending that supremacy. It was in Cruyff’s four years as a player (only 14 goals behind when he leaves) and with the 1984-85 League won under Terry Venables (he remains 15 goals behind) but the margin opens up again in the years of the Quinta del Buitre. The gap skyrocketed to 139 goals difference at the end of 1989-90. That’s when coach Cruyff appears to bring Barça closer.
Although the great job of harassment and knockdowns is done by Leo Messi, author of 474 goals in the League. In his debut campaign, 79 goals separated the second from the first, when the Argentine says goodbye (in tears) to the Camp Nou in 2021, Barça is 19 goals ahead. The Dream Team is approaching, Messi turns around 58 years of persecution and now the young people of the Dream Teen defend that hidden record for Flick’s Barça and look for the definitive escape.
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