With the title practically in their pocket, the Barça team has more incentives to maintain the good run in the domestic competition
Lewandowski’s pichichi, Ter Stegen’s Zamora or the points record are some of them
“Take nothing for granted,” goes the expression. And more in football, which is already known that anything can happen. Even what seems impossible. However, if Barça beat Girona this Monday, they will be fifteen points ahead of the lead and will be able to take the license to start singing the most desired ‘champions, champions’ of the League in recent years.
With the title practically in their pocket, the Barça team will still have some challenges to finish rounding off this feat. Let’s go one by one.
The Pichichi for Lewandowski
With the double against Elche, the Polish forward was reunited with the goal and gained distance – he is first with 17 goals and 6 assists – with his main pursuer in the fight for the top scorer, Karim Benzema (14 goals and 3 assists), who in turn scored a hat-trick against Valladolid on the same day. Since the competitions resumed after the World Cup, Lewandowski He has scored four goals to nine for the Frenchman. A bitter fight between the two is expected in the eleven days that remain to be played.
The Zamora for Ter Stegen
The German goalkeeper will reach the minimum number of participations against Girona (28) to be eligible for the prize for the goalkeeper with the fewest goals scored in the First Division. Ter Stegen He has a coefficient of 0.33 goals against per game. And his main pursuers –Oblak (0.68 points), Courtois (0.86) and remiro (0.96)– They are so far away that they could not match him even if they played the remaining eleven days of the League without conceding.
The least thrashed team in history
Along the same lines, Barça could also become the team that has conceded the fewest goals in the history of the League as we know it now, with 38 games. The Deportivo de la Coruña paco liano -in the 1993-94 season- he received only 18 goals with an average of 0.47 per game. And Barça right now has only 9 conceded.
the 100 points
With still ten days and, therefore, thirty points at stake, Barça can reach a new League of ‘The 100’. A feat that in Spain only achieved Mourinho (with Real Madrid, in the 2011-2012 season, and Tito vilanova, a year later with the Catalan team, in 2012-2013. In addition, if the culés win all the games that remain, they will add 101 and would thus become the team that wins the League with the most points.
Tito Vilanova during his parliament
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The biggest difference with Madrid
For now, it is the white team that has the record for the longest distance between Barça and Madrid in a league table since victories are counted by three points. It was in the 2002-2003 season, with Forest on the merengue bench and Van Gaal, From the cross and old in the cule The azulgrana team finished sixth, 22 points behind the leader.
And in favor of Barça, the greatest historical advantage between the two was in the 2018-2019 season, when the Catalans finished an almost perfect course with an advantage of 17 points. It is not unreasonable to think that this figure can be exceeded.
undefeated at home
Together with Bayern and Unión Berlin, Barça is part of an exclusive group of teams from the five major leagues that do not know defeat at home in domestic competition. One of the challenges of the set of Xavi is to continue like this and finish the undefeated season at the Spotify Camp Nou before moving to Montjuïc.
Recover and revalue some players
Finally, one of the great challenges for the Egarense coach will be to give stripes to the less usual, such as Inaki Pena, Eric Garcia either Paul Towergive opportunities to homegrown players like alarcon, Married, graceful or even lamina yamal -although the subsidiary is playing the play-off for promotion to Segunda- and look for the best version of footballers like Ansu Fati either ferran torreseither to recover or revalue them.
Of course, first it will be time to secure the alirón.