Barça showed all heir attacking strength with the five goals against Seville, but it was also the team’s fourth clean sheet on the run, as Guardiola said after the game: “we defend by attacking!”.
Below are some of the match stats from the game:
► Seville only had three shots during the game, with just one on target, whilst Barça had eighteen, with eight on target.
► At the back, Pique won eighteen tackles, whilst no other player on the pitch made more than ten.
► Barça made twenty five crosses to Seville’s seven and a total of 723 passes to the visitor’s 283: another stat that shows Barça’s total domination.
► Xavi was only on the pitch for an hour and so it was Busquets who was the most active Barça player with 124 interventions.
► The game was the fourth on the run in which the team have kept a clean sheet, with Copenhagen, Zaragoza and Ceuta also unable to break the Barça defence. That is the best run of the season......so far!
► It was also the team’s fifth win on the trot in all competitions, a run which began with the win against Valencia.
► Messi has scored 14 goals in the 12 games the team have played so far this year, with 10 in the first half and four after the break.
► It was the fourth brace of the season for Messi, who’s scored twice on three occasions in the last 10 days.
► In contrast, it was Villa’s first two goal haul as a Barça player and his twelfth against Seville.
► Alves bagged his second goal of the season following his strike against Panathinaikos in the 5-1 win at the Nou Camp, but it was his first in the league and his first against his ex-team.
► Piqué is still sat on four yellows in the league –just one short of a one-match suspension.
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