Atlético Madrid 0-3 FC Barcelona: Data, statistics and curiosities of the match

Atlético de Madrid 0-3 FC Barcelona. Goals from Robert Lewandowski, Joao Félix and Fermín López struck down Atlético de Madrid at the Metropolitano and sealed a win that places FC Barcelona in second position in the League, 8 points behind Real Madrid. Xavi Hernández was sent off in the first half and Ter Stegen once again kept the goal at 0 by signing two outstanding saves. The match pitted the best local team in the League against the best visitor, but Barça broke Atleti's streak and continues without knowing the KO away from Montjuïc. Furthermore, since Xavi announced his resignation, the Barça team has improved exponentially and has gone 10 games without losing. Below we review the data and curiosities of this great game:

Technical sheet Atlético Madrid 0-3 FC Barcelona

Atlético de Madrid: Oblak; Molina, Savic, Witsel, Reinildo, Lino (Griezmann, m. 46); Llorente (Koke, d. 58), Barrios, De Paul (Saúl, d. 65), Riquelme (Correa, d. 58); Morata (Memphis, m. 46).

FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Kounde, Araujo, Cubarsí, Fort (Casadó, d. 82); Fermín (Íñigo Martínez, d. 82), Gundogan, Sergi Roberto (Oriol Romeu, d. 77); and Raphinha (Lamine Yamal, m. 60), Lewandowski and Joao Felix (Vitor Roque, m. 77).

Goals of the match: 0-1, m. 38: Joao Felix. 0-2, m. 47: Lewandowski. 0-3, m. 65: Fermín.

Referee: Sánchez Martínez (C. Murciano). He gave a yellow card to the locals De Paul (m. 46), Savic (m. 61) and Barrios (m. 89) and the visitor Koundé (m. 33). He sent off the Barcelona coach, Xavi Hernández, for a double yellow card, in the 42nd minute, and the Atlético de Madrid player Nahuel Molina (m. 91).

Incidents: match corresponding to the twenty-ninth day of LaLiga EA Sports played at the Cívitas Metropolitano stadium in front of 68,253 spectators.

Change of Barça chip. FC Barcelona arrived at the match against Atlético in a sweet moment after sealing their place in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. In the last 10 matches they have 7 wins (Osasuna, Alavés, Celta, Getafe, Mallorca, Naples and Atlético) and three draws (Granada, Naples and Athletic). In other words: since Xavi announced that he would leave the Barça bench on June 30, the team has not known the KO.

The best visiting team beat the best home team. The Metropolitano match pitted Simeone's Atlético de Madrid, the best local team in the League (13 wins, 1 draw and now 1 loss; 34 goals scored and 16 conceded) against Xavi's FC Barcelona, the best visiting team in the championship. With 0-3, the Barça team broke Atleti's streak and continues without knowing the KO away from Montjuïc in the League (8 wins and 6 draws; 27 goals scored and 15 goals conceded).

FC Barcelona's numbers in LaLiga EA Sports: 29 games played, 19 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses. 60 goals for and 34 against. (2nd place)

FC Barcelona has gone 8 consecutive games without losing in the League. Since the very tough defeat against Villarreal on matchday 22, Xavi's Barça has established itself in a victorious dynamic. The Barça team has confirmed an impressive recovery and with the defeat of Atlético in the Metropolitano it has 6 wins and 2 draws in the last 8 games played.

FC Barcelona has 4 consecutive games with a clean sheet. Barcelona has 403 minutes without conceding goals in LaLiga (Getafe (4-0), Athletic Club (0-0), RCD Mallorca (1-0) and Atlético de Madrid (0-3). At the Cívitas Metropolitano, the culé team recorded the fourth consecutive game with a clean sheet. Marc-André ter Stegen was decisive

Xavi's 93 League games as culé coach. Xavi Hernández's FC Barcelona played their 93rd League match against Atlético, with a record of 64 wins, 16 draws and 13 losses; 179 goals scored and 77 conceded. In total, the "Xavi era" now has 132 games with 82 wins, 24 draws and 26 losses. He has scored 253 goals and conceded 140.

The unprecedented record that Xavi's Barça has achieved against Simeone. No other Blaugrana coach had achieved it before, Xavi has won five consecutive victories over Cholo Simeone in the league and in turn, Barça has done the same against Atlético. And that would be a record, which to date was established by Luis Enrique in the 14/15 and 15/16 seasons, when he won the four matches against Atlético del Cholo Simeone by 3-1, 0-1, 1-2 and 2-1. That streak not only extended in the League but also added two more victories in the Copa del Rey and one in the Champions League, for a total of seven consecutive victories for Barça over Atlético de Madrid. Barça has not fallen at the Metropolitano since October 2021, with Ronald Koeman on the bench.

Joao Félix made good the 'law of the ex' with a great goal that made him 'forget' his gray game. Although he went unnoticed for much of the match, Joao Félix returned Xavi Hernández's trust with a goal that opened the scoring against the team he that your token still belongs to you. The Portuguese striker has done more than well this season against Atlético de Madrid. In the first round match, he was in charge of scoring the only goal of the night (1-0) and took the 'MVP' of the night. On his return to Cívitas Metropolitano, a stadium that he does not like and that has reproached him for his attitude before leaving for FC Barcelona during the summer of last year, he was once again decisive, opening the scoring in the final stretch of the first part.

Joao Félix is the third top scorer for the Barça team in this 2023/2024 season. With the goal against Atlético, the Portuguese has reached nine so far this year, with six in LaLiga and another three in the Champions League. He is behind Robert Lewandowski who has reached 20 goals and Ferran Torres who, despite the fact that he is still in the infirmary, remains in second position in the ranking with 11.

They burn a Joao Félix shirt. Throughout the afternoon, Atlético de Madrid fans dirty the commemorative plaque dedicated to Joao Félix on the outskirts of the Cívitas Metropolitano. They also burned a red and white shirt with the Portuguese player's number on that same plaque.

The best Lewandowski returns! Great goal and double assists from Barça's '9'. The Poland international has taken a step forward in 2024 that has been key for Barça. In 18 games to date, he has scored 11 goals, more than he had registered in the first part of the season (9). Against Atlético de Madrid he was once again key with a goal, to make it 2-0, in addition to providing assists to Joao Félix and Fermín López. Robert Lewandowski's twentieth goal this season, his thirteenth in the League.

Fermín López shone again and is now Barça's fourth top scorer. Fermín scored Barcelona's third goal in the 64th minute by heading a shot from the right by Sergio Roberto after a masterful prior control by Lewandowski with his heel. With this goal, he now has six goals with Barça this season, placing him in fourth place in the scoring table. The '16' culé equaled the same goals as his teammate Lamine Yamal (6).

The inclusion of Fermín López in Barça's starting XI against Atlético de Madrid was a last-minute surprise. The youth player was in the game due to Christensen's discomfort in the warm-up prior to the match.

Sánchez Martínez expelled Xavi after a strong protest. Xavi Hernández was sent off in the first half: In the 40th minute he saw Xavi's first yellow card for protesting. The Barça coach was complaining about an action by Witsel on Gündogan. Just 1 minute later, in the 41st minute, Xavi saw the second card and was sent off for insisting on protests. With this new expulsion, Óscar Hernández will once again take the reins of the Barça team. Furthermore, Xavi reaches a curious record. With this incident at the Cívitas Metropolitano, he adds his second 'KO' of the season in LaLiga. The first occurred in Barça's debut match against Getafe.

These two expulsions, according to 'Mister Chip' metrics, equal the number of red cards that the man from Terrassa had in LaLiga as a player. The surprising thing is that as a coach he has only needed 93 games to reach that figure, while as a footballer he added that amount to 505. With this new warning, the Catalan coach has received a total of 15 yellow cards in the League.

FC Barcelona XI: Ter Stegen; Kounde, Araujo, Cubarsí, Fort (Casadó, d. 82); Fermín (Íñigo Martínez, d. 82), Gundogan, Sergi Roberto (Oriol Romeu, d. 77); and Raphinha (Lamine Yamal, m. 60), Lewandowski and Joao Felix (Vitor Roque, m. 77).. Bench: Iñaki Peña, Iñigo Martínez, Marcos Alonso, Oriol Romeu, Vitor Roque, Lamine Yamal, Casadó, Kochen and Marc Guiu

For the duel against Atleti, Xavi Hernández recovered both Marcos Alonso and Ferran Torres, but he lost Christensen in the warm-up prior to the match due to discomfort. In addition, he has two significant casualties: Frenkie de Jong, who suffers a sprain to the external lateral ligament of his right ankle, and Pedri González who suffers an injury to the rectus femoris of his right thigh.

The average age of the Atlético and FC Barcelona defenses: The average age between the two defenses is abysmal: 32.6 years for Atlético's three center backs (Savic, Witsel and Reinildo) and 21 years for FC Barcelona's line of four (Koundé, Araujo, Cubarsí and Fort).

Lamine Yamal, substitute by technical decision: The substitution of Lamine Yamal was a decision by Xavi Hernández, he does not have any physical problem. The FC Barcelona coach considered that he must take care of the 16-year-old forward since he was coming off a very demanding match against Naples in the Champions League.

Christensen was left on the bench due to discomfort. FC Barcelona suffered a new setback with one of its players. On this occasion, Andreas Christensen was left out of the starting eleven for the match against Atlético due to some discomfort he suffered during the warm-up prior to the match.