16.01.2011 22:59

Best first half of the season in history

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Barça have finished the first half of the season with a record 52 points from the 19 games.

For the third year on the run, Barça are Winter Champions, the 4-1 win over Malaga ensuring that they go into the second half four points clear of rivals Real Madrid.

Seventeen wins

The team have won 17 of their 19 games, with 1 defeat and 1 draw and have scored 61 goals, conceding only 11. The 52 points are a Spanish record (beating the 50 they ran up in the 2008/09 season) and the side have won every one of their 9 games on the road.

Pep Guardiola’s men have also put together a run of 13 consecutive league wins and are just one away from matching the record set by Rijkaard’s team in the 2005/06 season.

28 games unbeaten

The defeat of Malaga also marks the breaking of the Club’s record for successive games unbeaten set in 1973/74 under Rinus Michels who went 27 games without defeat. Since the loss to Hercules on September 11th, Barça have now gone 28 games without defeat -23 wins and 5 draws.