► David Villa has now scored 30 goals in the 65 games he’s played in a Barça shirt: 21 in the league, 7 in the Champions League, 1 in the Spanish Cup and 1 in the Spanish Super Cup.

► Villa, who’s notched up more in Europe this campaign than any other Barça player, has scored in each of this season’s Champions League games: from a free kick against AC Milan, after winning a tackle against BATE and pouncing on the keeper’s parry against Viktoria.

► Messi and Pedro are the next highest Champions League scorers, with two each.

► CSKA Moscow striker Seydou Doumbia is the competition’s current highest scorer with four goals, but Villa is the only player to have scored in each of the three games.

► Éric Abidal made most tackles for Barça with 12.

► Xavi put in the most kilometres -11.234 – and was also the player who completed most passes(158).

► Xavi started his ninth game on the run on Wednesday night and the last time he started on the bench was against Villarreal.

► Dani Alves also started his ninth consecutive game – he missed the Villarreal game through suspension. Leo Messi started his eighth game on the run against Viktoria.

► Víctor Valdés enjoyed his fifth game on the run without conceding and has now gone 517 minutes unbeaten – just 60 short of the record he set last season, a record he will be looking to beat against Seville on Saturday.

► There were 74.376 fans at the Camp Nou on Wednesday night – the ground has recorded more than 70, 000 supporters at every one of the seven official games played so far this season.