The best stats behind Barca’s start to the season under Flick

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The Catalans are perfect so far

Barcelona have enjoyed a superb start to the campaign under Hansi Flick. The Catalans have won all four La Liga games, bagged 13 goals along the way and sit top of the table in Spain during the international break.

It’s the perfect start to life under a new manager and one that’s happened despite the team being without a host of key stars due to injury such as Gavi, Ronald Araujo, Andreas Christensen and Frenkie de Jong. Sadly, we can now add Marc Bernal to that list.

Yet Barca’s youngsters have once again come up trumps, Dani Olmo has settled quickly and impressed following his move, while Robert Lewandowski, Raphinha and Lamine Yamal have all enjoyed themselves up front.

Barcelona have also picked up some pretty interesting stats, along the way, so let’s crunch the numbers behind a great start to 2024-25.

Not just the best in Spain

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• Barcelona aren’t just the best team in Spain right now. They also have the most points (12), the most goals (13), and the biggest gap to second place (4) in all the top five leagues in Europe.

Baby Barca doing the business

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• Barcelona aren’t just top of La Liga, they are top of La Liga with the youngest squad in the Spanish top flight. The average age of Flick’s first-team roster is 23.4 years. Next up are Real Sociedad (24.5), Valencia (25) and then Sevilla (25.6).

The Hansi Flick effect

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• Barcelona victory over Real Valladolid was their biggest La Liga win since April 2016 against Deportivo La Coruna (0-8) and their biggest home win in the competition since March 2014 against Osasuna (7-0).
• Flick is the first Barcelona coach to win each of his first four La Liga games since Ernesto Valverde took seven wins from his first seven games in 2017/18.

Dani Olmo - back with a bang

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• Dani Olmo joins Cesc Fabregas and Zlatan Ibrahimovic as players who have scored in their first two La Liga games for Barcelona.
• No player in Europe’s top five leagues so far this season, has played more accurate through balls than Dani Olmo (3).

Lamine Yamal and Raphinha

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• Lamine Yamal has completed more dribbles (15) than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues this season.
• Raphinha’s hat-trick against Real Valladolid was his first in all competitions across Europe’s top five leagues, scoring 2+ goals for the second time for Barcelona, having done so in April 2024 against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
• Yamal has been involved in 14 goals in 42 appearances in LaLiga (6 goals and 8 assists), the most by a player before turning 18 in the competition in the 21st century, surpassing Bojan Krkić (13 - 10 goals and 3 assists).

Hope for the future?

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• Barcelona have won La Liga in nine of the last 10 seasons in which they have started with four wins from their first four games. The only year they failed to do so was in 2013-14 when Atletico Madrid finished top.

Source: barcablaugranes.com