02.06.2009 13:38
Roger Bogunyà
With Europe’s main domestic campaigns all done and dusted, it’s possible to compare Barca’s achievements in La Liga with the other League Champions across the continent - Manchester United, Inter, Girondins, Wolfsburg, AZ Alkmaar and Porto.
Top Scorers
Barca are way out in front in terms of gaols scored in
comparison to the other national champions with an average of 2.76 goals per game, the best in
Europe ahead of German Bundesliga winners Wolfsburg averaging 2.35) with Bordeaux the team scoring
least on 1,68 goals a game.
Defensively, it’s Porto who boast the best record, having concede a miserly 0.6 goals
per game in what is perhaps not as tough a competition as the English and Spanish leagues, who
together provided 3 of the 4 Champions League semi finalists.
Best goal difference
Barca’s 70 goal difference was not only a record in the Spanish
League, but also left the winners of the other league’s well behind: Manchester United and AZ
Alkmaar came closest to matching Guardiola’s team’s figures, both with a 44 goal
difference.
Just behind United
United managed to win 79% of the points available in the Premier, just
ahead of Barca’s 76% in La Liga, in real terms that meant just 3 more points for Sir Alex
Ferguson’s team, 90 against 87 and it should be taken into account that Barca were proclaimed
Champions four games before the season finished and managed just 2 out of a possible 12 points in
those last games. United and Dutch Champions AZ also won the most victories – 74% of their
games, with Barca just one win behind them.