15.04.2010 12:19
Record number of goalscorers
Jesús Carrillo
After Touré scored against Deportivo, 16 players have been on target for the club this season, one more than in the treble winning campaign with 8 or 9 games still to go.
Barça’s goals have been coming from all departments this season. In al six competitions FC
Barcelona have appeared in, 16 players have scored. Sergio Busquets is the only one of those who
hasn’t scored in the League, but he was on target against Mexican outfit Atlante at the Clubs
World Cup.
Newcomers
Ibrahimovic, Pedro, Thiago Alcántara and Jeffren have all scored their
first goals for the club this season. Pedro, with 19 goals in all competitions has had the most
surprising impact, the same tally as Ibrahimovic, in his first season at FCB. They are joint second
behind the amazing record-breaking Leo Messi, who has scored 40 goals.
Well shared
For defenders have scored (Alves, Puyol, Piqué and Márquez), plus six
midfielders (Xavi, Iniesta, Keita, Busquets, Thiago and Touré) and six strikers (the provisional
Golden Boot winner Messi, Ibrahimovic, Henry, Pedro, Bojan and Jeffren). The only players not to
have scored are, obviously, the two goalkeepers Valdés and Pinto, plus the full backs Abidal and
Maxwell and centre backs Chygrinskiy and Milito. But anything could happen in the next 8 or 9
games.
Barça and Madrid, leaders in Europe
FC Barcelona and Real Madrid both have fifteen different players that have scored league goals this
season. In comparison to some of the other big clubs in the major European leagues, Chelsea has 12
different players, as do Van Gaal’s Bayern and Barça’s next Champions League opponents
Inter Milan. The other semi finalist in that competition, Lyon, have also got 15 goalscorers in
their squad.