Barcelona have made a good start to the new 2024-2025 season by winning 4 of their four matches in the Spanish Football League under their new German coach, Hansi Flick.
Barça have managed to make an ideal start by occupying the first place in the Spanish League, despite missing the services of a number of their main players, such as Gavi, Ronald Araujo, Andreas Christensen and Frankie de Jong, due to injury.
Barcelona have won the Spanish League in nine of the last ten seasons, starting with 4 consecutive wins in their first four games. The only year they failed to do so was in the 2013-14 season, when Atletico Madrid won the La Liga title.
Below are the most notable numbers that have driven Barcelona’s breakthrough this season:
- Barcelona have 12 points from 4 rounds, their players have scored 13 goals, conceded 3 goals and are 4 points behind their traditional rivals, Real Madrid.
- Barcelona leads La Liga with the youngest squad, with an average age of 23.4. Followed by Real Sociedad (24.5), Valencia (25), and then Sevilla (25.6).
- Barcelona’s win over Real Valladolid was their biggest La Liga victory since April 2016 against Deportivo La Coruña (8-0) and their biggest home win in the competition since March 2014 against Osasuna (7-0).
- Flick is the first Barcelona coach to win his first four Spanish league games since Ernesto Valverde won seven of his first seven games of the 2017-18 season.
- Dani Olmo joins Cesc Fabregas and Zlatan Ibrahimovic among players to score in their first two La Liga games for Barcelona.
- No player in the five major European leagues has yet made more accurate through passes than Dani Olmo (3).
- Lamine Jamal has completed more dribbles (15) than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues this season.
- Rafinha’s hat-trick against Real Valladolid was the first in all competitions in Europe’s top five leagues.