Seventh clean sheet of the season

 

FC Barcelona kept yet another clean sheet at Celtic Park, the seventh in the eleven competitive games so far this season

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• Adriano, Sergio Busquets and Xavi at the end of the match against Celtic

  
  

Celtic crowd applauds Iniesta

Andres Iniesta was replaced in the 89^th minute by Song and received a standing ovation from the Scottish fans as he left the pitch. A pretty common sight here in La Liga but not so frequent in Europe.

• FC Barcelona kept yet another clean sheet at Celtic Park, the seventh in the eleven competitive games so far this season. A good part of the credit must go to Valdés, who produced another fine performance.

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• It was Barça’s first away win in Europe since they beat Spartak Moscow 0-3 on 20^th November 2012. In the meantime, they’ve lost against Milan (2-0), drawn against PSG in Paris (1-1) and lost to Bayern in Munich (4-0).

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• Barça enjoyed an astonishing 82% 0f the possession in the first half and 79% over the 90 minutes.

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• Piqué (14) and Bartra (11) topped the Barça ranking for balls recovered.

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• In Scotland, Song and Tello got their first taste of this season’s Champions League.

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• It was Sergio Busquets’ 50^th Champions League appearance. His debut in the competition came on 22^nd October 2010 away to Basle, when he also scored his first senior goal (0-5).

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• Cesc, Busquets and Alexis each picked up a yellow card, the first of Barça’s European campaign.

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• Valdés and Piqué have featured in the starting line-up in every match so far this season. But Valdés is the only player not to have missed a single minute (a total of 990 minutes).

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• Cesc has now scored three Champions League goals for Barça. As well as Celtic, he scored against Viktoria Plzen and Benfica.

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• Four of Barça’s five goals in the Champions League this season have come in the second half. Three of those goals were scored between the 60^th and 75^th minute.

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• Barça have scored 30 goals in 11 matches this season, an average of 2.72 goals per match.

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• Alves has now overtaken Koeman in third place in the ranking of foreign players with the most appearances for Barça (265). Ahead of him are Messi (388) and Cocu (292).