The FC Barcelona under Hansi Flick ended their poor streak in La Liga, and they did it in style, thrashing Valencia 7-1 and resting several of their starters with an eye on the Champions League match next Wednesday against Atalanta. With this victory, the blaugrana team remains third in the standings, seven points behind Real Madrid and three behind Atlético. Next, we review the highlights of another great night of football for Barça:
First victory in La Liga. Barcelona had not won any of their last four matches in LaLiga (2D 2L). Hansi Flick's team arrived in fourth place with 39 points. That is to say, they were forced to win to avoid falling further behind the leaders. SEE NEWS
Seven matches unbeaten. Barcelona has gone 7 matches without knowing defeat: 2 in La Liga, 2 in the Cup, 2 in the Super Cup, and 1 in the Champions League. In these 7 matches, they have accumulated 6 victories and 1 draw, with 29 goals scored and 9 conceded. SEE NEWS
101 goals from Barça. Only in three seasons have they scored more goals after the first 32 matches played than in the 2024/25 season (101 goals). SEE NEWS
- 1942/43 season (106 goals)
- 1958/59 season (103 goals)
- 2011/12 season (102 goals)
Hansi Flick: second fastest coach in Barcelona history to reach 100 goals. Only Helenio Herrera (31 matches in 1959) reached 100 goals scored faster than Hansi Flick (32 matches). SEE NEWS
Seven goals. Barça has scored 7 goals in 2 matches of the same edition of La Liga (Valladolid and Valencia) for the first time since the 2013-14 season (against Levante and Osasuna). Barcelona has scored 7+ goals in 9 official matches in the last decade. Two of those 9 thrashings were against Valencia (7-0 in the Copa del Rey 2015-16). SEE NEWS
Four goals in 24 minutes. Barça scored four goals before the 24th minute of a La Liga match (De Jong 3’, Ferran Torres 8’, Raphinha 14’ and Fermín López 24’) for the first time since October 2008 against Almería, also at home (Etoo 5’, Henry 13’, Etoo 21’ and Etoo 24’). They had not gone into halftime with five goals ahead since April 2015 against Getafe at home in La Liga. And Barcelona has scored three goals in the first 15 minutes of a La Liga match for the third time in the 21st century, after doing so in April 2008 against Valencia and October 2008 against Atlético de Madrid. SEE NEWS
SUSPENDED: The major pending issue for FC Barcelona under Hansi Flick continues to be the goals conceded. They have only kept their goal clean in 3 of the last 18 matches.
- Matches played: 32
- Matches without conceding a goal: 8
- Matches conceding goals: 24
Despite Barça's comfortable victory, the goal conceded extends Flick's negative streak. Because, with the match against Valencia, they have now gone ten consecutive league matches conceding at least one goal, the worst streak since 2018, with Valverde on the bench. Barcelona has conceded 5 goals from the last 7 shots on target they have allowed. In fact, in 2025 they have conceded 9 goals in 7 matches (two against Real Madrid, one against Betis, one against Getafe, four against Benfica, and the last against Valencia). They have only not conceded against Barbastro in the Cup and Athletic in the Super Cup). SEE NEWS
Fermín López: Double and record. At 21 years and 260 days, Fermín López is the youngest player from Barcelona to participate in four goals in a single La Liga match (two goals, two assists) since Bojan Krkić against Real Valladolid in March 2008 (17 years and 208 days; two and two). Fermín is the first Barcelona player with 2+ goals and 2+ assists in a single La Liga match since Messi did it against Real Valladolid on October 29, 2019, and he is the first player with 2+ goals and 2+ assists in a single match of La Liga 2024-25. SEE NEWS
Additionally, after 14 goals and 5 assists in 67 matches, the youth player has scored and assisted for the first time in the same match with Barcelona in all competitions. And with these two goals, he has broken a long goal drought, as the last time he found the net was on November 6 in the Champions League match against Red Star. SEE NEWS
Lewandowski vs Mbappé. The goal from the Polish forward against Valencia helps him distance himself from the Real Madrid forward in the race to be the top scorer of LaLiga EA Sports. The Frenchman, with the hat-trick on Saturday against Valladolid, left the gap at one goal. But the '9' from Barça has again increased the difference to two (17 for Lewandowski against 15 for Mbappé) in the race for the Pichichi. SEE NEWS
Raphinha, record holder. The Brazilian is now the player in Spanish football, along with Lewandowski, with the most direct goal involvement (scoring or assisting) in the 2024-25 season. SEE NEWS
- 32 Raphinha (23+9)
- 32 Lewandowski (29+3)
- 26 Mbappé (22+4)
- 26 Vinicius (17+9)
Lamine Yamal adds 13 assists, 10 in La Liga. Lamine recorded his tenth assist of the season in LaLiga against Valencia (7-1). The player from Mataró provided the first goal of the azulgrana thrashing, scored by Frenkie de Jong. Only Salah (17 with Liverpool) has provided more assists than Lamine (13, tied with Bukayo Saka from Liverpool and Omar Marmoush from Eintracht Frankfurt) in the five major European leagues this season, counting all competitions. SEE NEWS
Ferran Torres is on fire. With the goal against Valencia, he now has three goal involvements in the last four matches for Barça and, above all, seven goals across all competitions, a tally that matches the goals he scored in the 2021/22 and 22/23 seasons as a blaugrana. SEE NEWS
The best De Jong returns: The Dutchman, who continues to seek his best version, started the match against Valencia in the best way. Starter, captain, and a goal in two minutes. We have to go back to December 3 to see his last contribution in front of goal, in the 1-5 victory against Mallorca in which he also provided an assist. Goal from De Jong at 2 minutes and 24 seconds. The earliest goal of his ENTIRE professional career (club and national team). He has scored 19 goals in 232 official matches with Barcelona. SEE NEWS
Frenkie de Jong and Lamine Yamal, the fastest. De Jong scored the second earliest goal this season for Barcelona in all competitions (02:25) after the one Raphinha scored against Bayern in the Champions League last October (54 seconds). Meanwhile, Lamine has provided his second earliest assist of the 20 he has accumulated after the one he gave to Robert Lewandowski against Rayo in May 2024 (02:06).
Perfect record for Szczesny: The Polish goalkeeper has played his first match in LaLiga EA Sports as a starter, the fifth in all competitions with Barcelona. With the victory against Valencia, he is the goalkeeper in the five major leagues who has played the most matches as a starter with a 100% win rate (five). However, the blaugrana goalkeeper has conceded seven goals in five matches (two against Real Madrid in the Super Cup final, four against Benfica in the Champions League, and the one from Hugo Duro against Valencia in La Liga). He has only not conceded against Barbastro in the Cup and Athletic in the Super Cup). SEE NEWS
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