The six challenges that Barcelona still has pending in this League

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Barcelona has won its seventh league title and the third championship in a row, but it still has challenges to conquer in the six games it has to play before closing the course. The record of goals, the total of victories, the search for the Pichichi, the option of making more players debut, the lock of the clean sheets or the fair play These are some of the milestones that will monopolize the spotlight until the end of the domestic tournament.

FINISH THE LEAGUE WITH FULL OF VICTORIES

Barcelona has a challenge before it that it has only achieved Levante from the 2000/01 season, win all league games. After falling short in the 2019/20 season, where he won 19 of the 21 games played -until the competition ended due to the pandemic- and in 2020/21, where he won all the games except one -defeat against Atlético de Madrid-, the azulgrana could get rid of this thorn and enter the history of the competition.

They have six finals ahead: Madrid CFF (away), Villarreal (home), Valencia (away), Sevilla (home), Rayo Vallecano (away) and Atlético de Madrid (home).

FIGHT FOR THE PICHICHI

Barcelona has four players among the top five scorers in the championship, all of them fighting for the Pichichi of the season. At the moment he leads the table Asisat Oshoala, who has scored 19 goals in the 16 games he has played to date. The Nigerian, who has just renewed with Barcelona until 2024, is injured for a long time and will not be available until May.

Lieke Martens He occupies the third step of the podium with 17 goals. The Dutchwoman is also in dry dock at the moment, although her recovery is expected to be earlier. With 16 goals she is Alexia Putellasthe third Barcelona player who accumulates the most minutes in the League -only behind Marta Torrejón and Patri Guijarro- and with 14 she is Beautiful Jennythe only footballer who has won five Pichichis -four for Barça- and who has won the trophy in the last three editions.

To date there are 20 Barcelona players who have seen the door so far in the League. Only Andrea Pereira and goalkeepers Sandra Paños, Cata Coll and Gemma Font remain to score from the first team.

RECORD OF GOALS

Barcelona has scored 136 goals to date and is 31 of the 167 with which the League finished the season, playing four days more than the current championship. If he maintains the average number of goals he has scored to date (5.66) he would reach what is the record since the traditional format began to be played in the top flight.

The absolute record in the history of the competition is the 240 goals scored by Levante in the 2000/01 seasonwhere 26 games were played in a group stage and two in the play-off for the title.

PLAYERS USED

Jonatan Giráldez has used 28 different players so far in the Leaguethe 23 from the first team and five academy players: Ona Baradad, María Pérez, María Molina, Martina Fernández and Ornella Vignola.

The players who have participated in the most matches are Martha Torrejon (23) and Fridolina Rolfö (23); the one that accumulates the most minutes up to is Martha Torrejon (1931); the one that treasures the most ownership is Martha Torrejon (23); the one that has entered the most times from the bench is Melanie Serrano (13) and the one that has been replaced the most is Caroline Graham Hansen (17).

MORE CLOSE GOALS

Despite being the team with the fewest goals conceded in the category, with just six goals conceded, none of the Barcelona goalkeepers can aspire to the Zamora Award as it requires a minimum of 22 games played with a minimum of 60 minutes on the pitch. It is not an impediment for the Barça goalkeepers to have the challenge of becoming the team that achieves the most clean sheets.

A general level, Barcelona dominates the statistics with 18 clean sheetsfar from the 11 that Real Sociedad has or the 9 that Atlético de Madrid, UDG Tenerife and Levante currently have. Sandra Cloths he has kept his goal intact in 10 of the 14 games he has played; Tasting Coll in 5 of the 8; and Gemma Font the 3 in which he has participated.

At the individual level, Sandra Paños (Barcelona) and Elene Lete (Real Sociedad) keep the pulse for being the goalkeeper with the most clean sheetsco-leading the table with ten games each.

TEAM WITH BEST ‘FAIR PLAY’

Barcelona is the team that has received the fewest warnings to date with only 10 yellow cards. They are followed in this ranking by Real Sociedad (23), Alavés (23) and Real Madrid (26), with Betis (53) being the team with the most cards in the League.

As far as Barcelona players are concerned, those who have received cards to date are: Mapi Leon (3), Jane Fernandez (two), Irene Paredes (1), Melanie Serrano (1), Martha Torrejon (1), Alexia Putellas (1) and Mariona Caldentey (1).

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