Well, I'm going to show some statistics. One is from 2013/14 which I quoted exactly what has been written by Flavia.
The other is for 2012/13 which she had written before archiving it, so I had to copy then paste it from forum archives. As you see both are exactly for 24th Liga round.
The only difference that I can mention is that we had played less matches last year until 24th week- Madrid games in CDR. We shall see what's what:
Lliga - Round 24
FC Barcelona 6 - 0 Rayo Vallecano
Goals: Adriano, Messi(x2), Alexis, Pedro, Neymar
Assists: Pedro, Cesc(x2), Messi, Alexis, Iniesta
Total Stats:
GOALS: 111
- Messi 24
- Alexis 17
- Pedro 17
- Cesc 13
- Neymar 12
- Adriano 4
- Pique 4
- Tello 4
- Busquets 3
- Xavi 3
- Alves 2
- Bartra 1
- Iniesta 1
- Puyol 1
- Dongou 1
- O.g. 4
ASSISTS: 86
- Cesc 16
- Alexis 11
- Messi 11
- Neymar 10
- Pedro 8
- Iniesta 6
- Xavi 6
- Adriano 4
- Montoya 4
- Tello 4
- Alves 2
- Alba 1
- Bartra 1
- Busquets 1
- Song 1
Lliga Yellow Cards (suspension with 5 cards)
- Busquets 6
- Alves 5
- Adriano 5
- Neymar 5
- Masch 5
- Alba 4
- Cesc 3
- Pique 2
- Valdes 2
- Alexis 1
- Bartra 1
- Pedro 1
- Pinto 1
- Song 1
Lliga Red Cards:
CL Yellow Cards (suspension with 3 cards):
- Alexis 3
- Cesc 3
- Busquets 1
- Iniesta 1
- Montoya 1
- Neymar 1
- Pique 1
- S.Roberto 1
CL Red Cards:
Cdr Yellow Cards(suspension with 3 cards):
- Busquets 2
- Adriano 1
- Bartra 1
- Cesc 1
- Mascherano 1
- Messi 1
- Montoya 1
- S.Roberto 1
- Song 1
- Puyol 1
Cdr Red Cards:
Goals conceded(27):
Lliga: 17
CL: 5
Cdr: 4
Supercopa: 1
40 matches played:
Lliga: 24(19W, 3D, 2L)
CL: 6(4W, 1D, 1L)
Cdr: 8(7W, 1D)
Supercopa: 2(2D)
Clean sheets(all comps.): 19
Source: Whoscored and
BarcaStat
Lliga - Round 24
Granada 1 - 2 FC Barcelona
Goals: Messi(x2 [fk])
YC: Thiago
Total Stats:
GOALS: 115
Messi 48
Villa 11
Fabregas 9
Pedro 7
Adriano 6
Xavi 6
Iniesta 5
Tello 5
Alexis 4
Alba 3
Pique 3
Thiago 2
Puyol 2
Alves 1
Busquets 1
Song 1
O.g. 1
ASSISTS: 93
Iniesta 16
Messi 13
Fabregas 10
Pedro 7
Xavi 7
Alba 6
Thiago 6
Alexis 5
Alves 5
Tello 4
Villa 4
Montoya 3
Adriano 2
Busquets 2
Mascherano 1
Song 1
Sergi Roberto 1
Lliga Yellow Cards:
Busquets 8
Pique 5
Mascherano 4
Fabregas 3
Pedro 3
Thiago 3
Iniesta 2
Jordi Alba 2
Puyol 2
Adriano 1
Bartra 1
Messi 1
Song 1
Villa 1
Lliga Red Cards:
Mascherano 1
Pique 1
CL Yellow Cards:
Adriano 2
Mascherano 2
Pedro 2
Song 2
Alba 1
Fabregas 1
Rafinha 1
CL Red Cards:
Busquets 1
Cdr Yellow Cards:
Alves 2
Fabregas 2
Mascherano 2
Alba 1
Alexis 1
Busquets 1
Messi 1
Montoya 1
Pique 1
Puyol 1
We have scored less goals this season by playing couple of games more, but:
A) Messi was injured a lot this term( also I don't want to take it as an excuse). B) Majority of teams are parking the bus against us. C) etc.
And as you see Alexis & Pedro & Villa had scored 4, 6, 11 goals respectively but this season Alexis and Pedro have both scored 17 goals thus far and Neymar who got into Villa's place has scored 12. The difference between 17&4 is quite noticeable so is the difference between 17&7. Alexis and Pedro both have more time on the pitch this season compared to last season but I give credit to Tata because he revived them and injected self-confidence to them.
We also are a lot less Messi-dependent which is good. It adds variety to our attack and confuses rival defenses and makes us less predictable, again Tata...
Also Cesc looks a lot more dangerous and hungry this season. As it's comprehensible from the statistics:
His A+G was 19 which is now 29.
Attack is enough, let's go defend.
I mean let's take a look at defensive statistics.
What?
after writing the last paragraph I saw no defensive statistics from last season.
Generally we know we have conceded less goals per game and our defence looks better- Maybe it's because we have opponents who park the bus all the time and don't attack often. But again we shouldn't pretend it's the only reason.
We had 17 clean sheets in all competitions in the whole season, while we have 19 so far this season, with some months to go.
Deduction: I know it's maybe too long and I don't want to be cause of headaches and vertigos, so let's end it.
A) The team looks more organized this season than last one. It can be so because we have a couch unlike last year. Tito was unavailable a lot.
B) We are keeping up and aiming for all three glories- Even though we are facing tougher opponents than last year, parking the bus. We're in final of CDR which we weren't last year. We are first in Liga which we were actually. And we are in good shape in CL as well. Which we were . Although the Milan 2-nil loss took place couple of days after 24th round of the Liga.
C) We have better Defense compared to last term. We have 19 CSs in all competitions which we hadn't.
Bartra looks more mature and has a lot more playing time than last season.
D) etc.
All of these things that I wrote was for just one purpose:
To show you that we look better overall. And you should stop your pessimism.