FC Barcelona have claimed their eighth LaLiga win against Deportivo Alavés (0-3) with a hat-trick from Lewandowski and maintain their three-point lead over Real Madrid ahead of the second international break. But beyond the result, the match left us with a lot of data, records and curiosities that are worth reviewing...

Statistics Alavés 0-3 Barcelona

(EX)INEXPUGNABLE: Alavés arrived at this match in 11th place in the table, with 10 points (five away from the European spots and four above the relegation zone). However, the Vitoria side had not lost at Mendizorroza all season and the streak had extended since last year with seven unbeaten games at home: five wins and two draws.

BARÁS HISTORIC STREAK: Alavés could not change the course of history against Barcelona: they have a bad streak of 23 years without beating the Blaugrana team at Mendizorroza. Barcelona have not lost an official match at Mendizorroza since 1 December 2001 (2-0, with goals from Llorens and Ibon Begoña and with Mané on the Vitoria bench). From there, 9 Barça wins, 3 draws and 9 clean sheets in 12 visits by the culé team.

Barça statistics in LaLiga

LEADER: Hansi Flick's Barça is the sole leader of LaLiga EA Sports 2024-25 with 24 points, 8 wins, 1 loss, 0 draws, 28 goals for and 9 goals against.

TOP SCORER: Barcelona is the team that has scored the most goals in LaLiga with 28 goals in the first 9 matchdays.

TEAM WITH THE MOST SCORERS:Barcelona is the team with the most different scorers (NINE) in La Liga 2024-25: Lewandowski, Raphinha, Dani Olmo, Lamine Yamal, Pedri ,Ferran Torres, Koundé, Pablo Torre and Pau Víctor.

GOALS AGAINST: Barcelona has conceded 9 goals against and conceded in 6 of the 9 games played. Alavés, Getafe and Valladolid are the only rivals of Hansi Flick's Barcelona where he left : Barcelona have kept a clean sheet. They have conceded goals against: Valencia (-1), Athletic (-1), Rayo (-1), Girona (-1), Villarreal (-1) and Osasuna (-4).

AWAY GAMES: Barcelona have played 6 away games in LaLiga 2024/25 with a record of 5 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, 18 goals for and 8 against: Alavés (0-3, J9), Osasuna (4-2, J8), Villarreal (1-5, J6), Girona (1-4, J5), Rayo (1-2, J3) and Valencia (1-2, J1).

ALL-TIME TOP SCORER:FC Barcelona remains the all-time leader in goals in LaLiga. The Blaugrana team has scored 6,505 goals in 3,036 games played, 4 more than Real Madrid, which has scored 6,501.

Player statistics

Goal and assist information

TOP SCORERS:In the NINE League matches, NINE players in the Barça squad have scored: Lewandowski (10), Raphinha (5), Lamine Yamal (4), Dani Olmo (3), Pedri (2), Ferran Torres (1), Pablo Torre (1), Koundé (1) and Pau Víctor (1).

ASSISTS: In the NINE League matches we have played, TEN players in the Baré squad have provided 18 goal assists: Lamine Yamal (5), Raphinha (4), Lewandowski (2), Marc Casadó (1), Ferran Torres (1), Koundé (1), Cubarsí (1), Pedri (1), Pablo Torre (1) and Pau Víctor (1).

GOALS AND ASSISTANCE: Barcelona has FOUR players who have scored and assisted in the same LaLiga match: Pablo Torre, Raphinha, Lewandowski and Ferran Torres.

BALLS OFF THE POST: In NINE La Liga matches Barcelona has hit the woodwork NINE times: two against Athletic (Lewandowski), one against Rayo (Dani Olmo) and three against Valladolid (two by Dani Olmo and one by Lewandowski), one against Villarreal (Lamine Yamal), one against Getafe (Lamine Yamal) and one against Osasuna (Ferran Torres).

Line-up information, injuries and suspensions

LINE-UPS:Against Alavés, Hansi Flick made only one change to the Champions League XI. That was Koundé, who had played every minute of the season. The Frenchman was rested from the start and Héctor Fort came on in his place. .

STARTERS:ONE FC Barcelona player has made NINE starts in the league: Lewandowski.

DEBUTS:Hansi Flick has given FIVE Barça youth-team players their debuts in the NINE league games: Marc Bernal, Pau Víctor, Gerard Martín, Sergio Domínguez and Héctor Fort.

YOUTH-QUARTERS:FOURTEEN Barça youth-team players represented on the list of those called up against Alavés and TEN of them played.

INJURED: Hansi Flick was unable to count on the SEVEN injured players Dani Olmo, Marc Bernal, Christensen, Araujo, Fermín L&ópez, Gavi and Ter Stegen for the match against Alavés.

SANCTIONED: Hansi Flick was able to count on all the players for the match against Deportivo Alavés.

Alavés-Barça top player stats

LEWANDOWSKI: Lewandowski has scored 10 goals in 9 games and leads the Barça and LaLiga EA Sports 2024/25 top scorers charts. The Polish Barcelona striker has now scored 12 goals so far this season between LaLiga EA Sports and the Champions League.

LEWANDOWSKI: Hat-trick in the 31st minute and 6th second. The earliest hat-tricks in Barcelona's league history: Eto'o in 2008 against Almería* (in the 23rd minute). Tejada in 1954 against Real Sociedad* (in the 28th minute). Messi in 2011 against Mallorca* (in the 29th minute). LEWANDOWSKI in 2024 against Alavés** (32 minutes in).

LEWANDOWSKI: Lewy is the SECOND Barcelona player to score a La Liga hat-trick at Mendizorroza, after Samitier did it in 1932. Between Samitier and Lewandowski, only the Ronaldos (Nazario in 2003 and Cristiano in 2016) have scored a hat-trick at this stadium in the First Division.

LEWANDOWSKI: Lewandowski's goals in his first 11 games of each season for Barça: 2022-23: 11 goals 2023-24: 6 goals 2024-25: 11 goals. The same in his last three seasons at Bayern: 2019-20: 15 goals 2020-21: 13 goals 2021-22: 15 goals.

LEWANDOWSKI: Last 16 players to reach 10 goals in La Liga BEFORE Matchday 10: Kempes (1977) Quini (1979) Baltazar (1988) Salva (1999) Milosevic (1999) Villa (2008) Cristiano (2010) Messi (2011) Cristiano (2011) Messi (2012) Falcao (2012) Cristiano (2012) Diego Costa (2013) Cristiano (2014) Messi (2017) LEWANDOWSKI (2024).

LEWANDOWSKI: Robert Lewandowski has scored 52 goals in 78 games for FC Barcelona in LaLiga and is the top Polish scorer in the history of the competition, surpassing Jan Urban, who scored 48 goals in 177 appearances.

RAPHINHA: Magical start for Raphinha. The Brazilian, key for Flick and brimming with confidence, has SIX goals and SIX assists in ELEVEN games.

ÍÑIGO MARTÍNEZ: Super-Martínez: With the Basque centre-back on the pitch, Barcelona has strung together 23 consecutive wins. Last Tuesday he scored his first goal as a Barça player after having scored 26 between Real Sociedad and Athletic.

KOUNDÉ: The French defender had played every minute of the season. The Frenchman was rested from the start and Héctor Fort came on in his place. He has one goal and one assist.

HÉCTOR FORT: Héctor Fort was a starter for the first time this season in LaLiga. He had only started in the First Division when he played for Barça Atlètic against Ourense and played 72 minutes. With the first team, he played in 26 minutes in the Champions League against Youb Boys and 45 in LaLiga, spread over 4 matches.

FERRAN TORRES: Ferran suffered a muscle injury and left the field after 3 minutes of play. Eric Garcia entered the field in his place.

IÑAKI PEÑA: Iñaki Peña played his 25th game with the FC Barcelona first team. He made his debut on November 1, 2022 against Viktoria Plzen (2-4) in the Champions League. He has played 16 league games (23 goals conceded), 3 Champions League games (6 goals), 5 Copa del Rey games (10 goals) and 2 Spanish Super Cup games (4 goals).

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