{"id":351352,"date":"2025-12-16T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T08:51:07","slug":"are-barcelona-better-than-last-season-interesting-stats-emerge-after-osasuna-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/351352\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Barcelona better than last season? Interesting stats emerge after Osasuna win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The general feeling is that Flick\u2019s side aren\u2019t as impressive as last season, but the stats show that &#8211; in La Liga at least &#8211; they are actually doing better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After 17 games in 2025-26, Barca have 43 points and a goal difference of +29 (49 scored and 20 conceded). At the same stage last season, Barca had 38 points and a goal difference of +31 (50 goals scored and 19 conceded).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Considering that Barca have been without key players such as Joan Garcia, Raphinha and Gavi for long periods and that other players such as Alejandro Balde, Lamine Yamal, Ferran Torres, Fermin Lopez, Dani Olmo and Robert Lewandowski have all been out at various different points &#8211; it\u2019s an impressive achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The return from injury of both Pedri and Raphinha has been absolutely vital and Barca have really turned around their form around since the Clasico defeat in October. Since then Barca have won all seven games to move back to the top of the table and enhance their chances of succesfully defending their title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The general feeling is that Flick\u2019s side aren\u2019t as impressive as last season, but the stats show that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,11561,596,85],"class_list":["post-351352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}