Barcelona have won all six of their competitive matches this season, and on Wednesday night they can turn a very good start into something no side in the club’s 127-year history has managed. Hansi Flick’s team have equalled the best opening run Barça have ever produced across all competitions. A seventh straight win, against Racing […]
Barcelona’s attack has now scored 26 goals in six competitive matches this season, and the most striking thing about that number is how few of them belong to any one man. Hansi Flick’s side made it five wins from five in LaLiga on Sunday with a 2-4 result at the Ciutat de València, and the […]
Lamine Yamal spent Sunday evening doing the only kind of campaigning that actually counts. Two goals at the Ciutat de València, the man-of-the-match award, and a quiet promotion to the summit of LaLiga’s scoring charts — all of it delivered on the grass rather than in a press room, six weeks before the Ballon d’Or […]
Eric Garcia did not spend long enjoying the scoreline. Barcelona were three goals up and cruising at the Ciutat de València on Sunday, and they still needed a stoppage-time goal from Karim Adeyemi to make the last 20 minutes bearable. When the masked defender stopped in the mixed zone afterwards, he sounded less like a […]
There are two versions of Xavi Espart‘s afternoon at the Ciutat de València, and Barça fans will be replaying both for a while. In the first, a 19-year-old from Vilassar de Mar opened the scoring in the fifth minute and beat a benchmark set by Philipp Lahm. In the second, he gifted Levante the goal […]
Barça’s No.10 has removed any doubt about where the Lamine Yamal Ballon d’Or conversation sits with the player himself. Asked who should collect the game’s biggest individual prize in London on 26 October, the 19-year-old did not reach for false modesty — he reached for his own name. The comments come in a trailer for […]
Levante 2-4 Barcelona was supposed to be a routine Sunday afternoon in Valencia. For 50 minutes it was exactly that. Then Barça spent the last half-hour being reminded that a 3-0 lead at the Ciutat de València guarantees nothing, and it took a moment of pure individualism from Karim Adeyemi in stoppage time to send […]
Gabriel Jesus arrived at Barcelona on deadline day with a grievance still fresh, telling anyone who asked that nobody at Arsenal had said “anything” to him while he was being made to train away from the first-team group. Ten days on, Mikel Arteta has finally given his side of it — and the Arsenal manager […]
Roony Bardghji has offered the first real glimpse of his rehabilitation since going under the knife, posting a picture from the gym at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper exactly one month on from the operation that ended his season before it had begun. He is still on crutches. There is still a brace on the […]
Jesse Bisiwu has been named in Juliano Belletti’s Barça Atlètic squad for Sunday’s trip to Logroñés Promesas, putting Barcelona’s €8.5 million summer signing in line for the first competitive appearance of his Barça career — three months after he arrived, and rather later than anyone at the club expected. As Barça Universal report, the 18-year-old Belgian […]
Barcelona have played five matches this season and won all five. They have scored 22 goals in the process, at least five in four of those games, and they finished a midweek Champions League night against Feyenoord looking like a side that could have gone again on Thursday morning. Hansi Flick spent pre-season warning everyone […]
Hafiz Gariba is the name La Masia watchers have been pushing at anyone who will listen for the best part of a year. He is quick, he is enormous, and he reads a game like someone several years older. He is also, according to a new report, nowhere near Hansi Flick’s first-team thinking — and […]
