Part 2: Stat Attack: Deportivo vs. Barcelona
It was a debut day in the Spanish La Liga for the newly signed Dutch star, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ibrahim-Afellay-c16547.
The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Athletic-Club-c38535 during midweek but he came on during the 90th minute and did not have enough time to impress the fans.
However, he featured for as long as 12 minutes against Deportivo.
After winning against Deportivo, Barcelona has maintained their 100% away win record. So far, they have won all the 9 games, away from home.
Josep Guardiola’s team is about to break the record of 1973-1974 season when the La Blaugrana went unbeaten for 26 straight games.
Currently, Barcelona is unbeaten for 25 straight games and they are just one short of equalising their personal best.
The captain of the La Blaugrana, Carles Puyol, has toppled the record of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergio-Busquets-c33048, Del Sol and Puskas as he is now the player that has won the most consecutive league games for Barcelona.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 players and one Barcelona youngster.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 of all time.
He has scored the highest number of goals for the Spanish national team and he still has at least 2 more years to play first team football for not only Barcelona but also for Spain.
The Spanish striker managed to put the ball between the goalkeeper’s legs and scored his 150th Spanish La Liga goal.
David Villa has performed under many Spanish La Liga teams like http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Real-Zaragoza-c40344 and Valencia. However, he is now playing for Barcelona and he scored his 150th goal in the Blaugrana jersey.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/David-c10409 Villa has scored 31 goals while playing for Real Zaragoza.
He found the back of the net 107 times while performing for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863.
This is his first season in Barcelona and he has already scored his 12th goal against Deportivo.
The game ended 0-4 with goals coming from David Villa, Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pedro-c29582 Rodriguez.
All these goals had significant value in terms of statistics.
It was David Villa’s 150th goal in the Spanish La Liga.
Lionel Messi’s goal was his first after two games and his first in the year 2011. It was for the first time in eight months this has ever happened that “Leo” has not scored in two consecutive games.
Moreover, it was the first direct free kick scored by the Spanish Giants.
The goal coming from Andres Iniesta was the only goal that did not involve Lionel Messi.
The goal scored by Pedro Rodriguez was his 9th consecutive goal in the Spanish La Liga.
Before this he had scored 8 goals in 8 La Liga games now he took his tally to 9 goals from 9 games.
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