Xavi Hernández lived through the Leagues as a player where Barça scored the most points and is on his way to being the protagonist of a new anniversary as the Blaugrana coach in his first full season on the Camp Nou wing. The Barcelona team is a points-scoring machine, for taking games forward with great defensive solvency and the necessary gunpowder to tip the balance.
At this point in the domestic competition, after matchday 27, only Pep Guardiola, in the 2010-11 season, and Tito Vilanova, in 2012-13, had achieved the records of the Egarense coach. With Santpedor's, Barça reached 99 points in their second season, 2009-10, and in the third they lifted the title with 96 and already had 74 points with eleven games to go compared to the current 71 for the Barcelona fans.
Barça has only suffered two defeats and two draws this season, the same numbers at this point in the competition as achieved by the late Tito Vilanova, architect of the League with the most points for the Catalans, a total of 100, a competition record together Mourinho's Real Madrid in the 2011-12 season.
If they did not lose or draw in the remaining days, Xavi's Barça, in his first experience as a coach in the elite, would break all records with 104 points. The azulgranas took another step towards the title this past Saturday with a pleasant win against bottom club Elche (0-4) that leaves them at the top of the League with a 15 advantage over Real Madrid with one game less, pending the match of this day against Valladolid.
The comfortable victory of the Barcelona fans at the Martínez Valero was settled for the twentieth time this season without conceding goals, so they remain with nine goals conceded in 27 games, unprecedented data at this point in the history of the competition, according to data from Mister Chip.
Since he made his debut on the Camp Nou bench on November 20, 2021 against Espanyol, Xavi has directed 53 league games with a record of six defeats, seven draws and forty wins. Only Luis Enrique, with 41, had reached four dozen wins in so few games. With the same number of games, Guardiola and Helenio Herrera remained at 39. In the history of the League, according to Mister Chip, the man from Terrassa is tied for this record with Carlo Ancelotti and is only surpassed by Mourinho, Zidane and Miguel Muñoz.
Barça is the highest scoring team (53) in the championship, with two goals more than Real Madrid, and by far the least scored with nine. Among the Barcelona ranks is, therefore, the Zamora of the League, the German Ter Stegen, and the top scorer Robert Lewandowski, with 17 goals after his double in Elche. If the blaugrana continue in the same line in the final stretch of the season, they will lift a historic title that will be accompanied by several records.
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