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18.05.2010 11:24

Guardiola’s spectacular stats

Roger Bogunyà

In his two seasons in charge at the club, Pep Guardiola has run up some spectacular stats – not just for the titles he’s won, but also for the number of wins and the goals his teams have scored.

The win against Valladolid last Sunday which confirmed the league title , was Guardiola’s 87th victory in charge out of a total of just 121 games, which represents a 72% winning record, with 19% of the games ending in a draw and just 9% lost.

Win stats have improved

In one of his first press conferences of the season, Guardiola warned that he didn’t think the team could possibly repeat last year’s fantastic stats and yet the players proved him wrong by improving their win ratio from 42 wins in 62 games (68% ) last season to 45 in 59 games this time around (76%).

296 goals in two seasons

And how did the team achieve that? By scoring, and scoring and scoring! Over his two year at the helm, Guardiola’s teams have scored 296 goals in 121 matches - nearly two and a half a game, with 203 of them coming in league games.

Mind you, the defence has done its part too, with just 94 goals conceded – less than one a game – that leaves them with a total goal difference of 202 goals over the period since Guardiola took over.

Goals galore for Messi

Although it’s been clear for a while now that Messi’s role in Guardiola’s teams was going to be as a goal scorer as well as a provider, nobody would have predicted he’d carry off the award as both Spain and Europe’s leading scorer this season by such a wide margin. He’s scored 85 in the last two seasons – 38 last year and 47 this season – and is already the club’s seventh leading league scorer of all time.