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Hansi Flick’s Barcelona outperforming Pep Guardiola, Johan Cruyff and Luis Enrique

Barça followed up their 5-2 Clásico thrashing of Real Madrid by scoring another five goals against Betis in the Copa del Rey.

Barça followed up their 5-2 Clásico thrashing of Real Madrid by scoring another five goals against Betis in the Copa del Rey.
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Since the start of 2025, Barcelona have been a goalscoring machine, netting 16 goals in their last four matches (four against Barbastro, two against Athletic Club, five against Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup Clásico, and another five against Betis in the Copa del Rey round of 16 on Wednesday).

Naturally, this has prompted us to have a look at their overall scoring statistics for the season, and the results are staggering: with 88 goals in 29 competitive games in all competitions, Barcelona are the highest-scoring team in Europe’s top leagues.

Top-scoring teams in Europe’s top leagues in 2024/25

Hansi Flick’s team lead Chelsea (80 goals in 32 matches), Bayern Munich (78 goals in 26 matches), and Liverpool (75 goals in 31 matches). Only PSV, with 90 goals in 27 matches, have scored more, although the level of competition in the Eredivisie in the Netherlands is notably different to LaLiga.

Average goals scored per game in Europe's top five leagues (Spain, England, Italy, Germany, France)

Barcelona: 3.03

Bayern Munich: 3

Chelsea: 2.5

Liverpool: 2.42

The numbers are no fluke. Despite a tough November and December that seriously dented their LaLiga title challenge (they are six points behind leaders Atlético Madrid and five adrift of Real Madrid), Barcelona have been entertaining and prolific in equal measures all season.

Barça’s goalscoring prowess in numbers

They’ve scored five goals in two Champions League matches (5-0 against Young Boys, 5-2 against Red Star), once in the Copa del Rey (5-1 against Betis), once in the Spanish Super Cup (5-2 against Real Madrid), and three times in LaLiga (against Villarreal, Sevilla, and Mallorca). Additionally, they put seven goals past Valladolid and scored four times against Bayern Munich, Girona and Real Madrid.

Barça have won two 2024/25 Clásicos by an aggregate score of 9-2.

Two stats stand out from the rest. Firstly, at this point last season, Barcelona had scored 57 goals, 31 fewer than this season.

In additional to individual player improvements, this year’s team is much more direct and relentless in attack, a style Flick insists on maintaining. Barcelona fans know this only too well, as they were on the receiving end when the German guided Bayern to an 8-2 thrashing of the Catalans in the Champions League in 2020.

Guardiola, Cruyff and Luis Enrique unable to keep up with Flick

Secondly, Barcelona haven’t averaged three goals per game since the 1958/59 season under Helenio Herrera (137 goals in 42 games, 3.26 games per game). Not even Johan Cruyff, Pep Guardiola or Luis Enrique achieved that feat as coach.

2024/25 Barça’s incredible numbers are led by Lewandowski (the current top scorer in LaLiga and the Champions League, with 16 and seven goals respectively) and Raphinha, who is having an outstanding season with 20 goals in all competitions.

Original article written by Juan Jiménez, translated with the assistance of AI and edited by Roddy Cons.

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