Barcelona make history with Hansi Flick: seven wins in seven matches | OneFootball

Hansi Flick’s Barcelona already has a place in the club’s history. The Blaugrana side beat Racing de Santander 7-2 and achieved something no Barça team had managed since the club began playing official competitions: winning its first seven matches of the season across LaLiga and the Champions League.

Seven consecutive victories make the start of Flick’s project the best in Barcelona’s history.

Racing arrived at Spotify Camp Nou with a rotated lineup, aware that it needed to save energy for its next league match against Celta. The visitors’ plan could do little against a Barcelona side that once again showed a clear edge in rhythm, intensity, and attacking power.

Cancelo responds to the competition

The scoring was opened before the eighth minute thanks to João Cancelo, who took his chance after losing prominence in LaLiga to Xavi Espart.

The Portuguese defender responded with personality and came close to getting a brace. His second shot took a deflection off Villalibre, so LaLiga recorded the goal as an own goal.

Internal competition is once again one of the main driving forces behind Flick’s team: whoever gets an opportunity has to make the most of it.

Raphinha keeps up his scoring pace

If there is one player who does not seem willing to slow down, it is Raphinha.

The Brazilian scored another hat-trick, including two goals from the penalty spot, to take his numbers to 11 goals and three assists in this spectacular start to the season.

His transformation into one of the team’s main attacking references continues to pay off and keeps Barcelona as a genuine threat to any opponent.

Lamine Yamal keeps pushing until he finds his goal

The night also featured Lamine Yamal as one of its main protagonists, although the young forward had to wait for his reward.

He first missed a penalty, then hit the post, and later saw a goal ruled out for offside.

But his persistence was eventually rewarded.

After a run from Karim Adeyemi, Lamine appeared to complete the rout and put the finishing touch on another attacking display from a Barcelona side that seems to find solutions from virtually every area of the pitch.

Earlier, Gabriel Jesus had also shown his quality with a finish that once again highlighted the attacking arsenal Flick has at his disposal.

The only concern: goals conceded

Not everything was perfect for Barcelona.

The team conceded two goals and has now let in seven this season. Joan García allowed one of them and was substituted at halftime as a precaution, while Wojciech Szczesny made an error with the ball at his feet that led to Racing’s second goal.

However, those mistakes were overshadowed by an attacking output that continues to be extraordinary.

Barcelona now has 33 goals in seven matches, an average of 4.7 per game.

Flick surpasses three historic teams

Barcelona’s start takes on even greater significance when compared with other great openings in the club’s history.

James Bellamy in the 1929-30 season, Ljubisa Brocic in 1960-61, and Ernesto Valverde in 2018-19 had come close to this mark, but none managed to begin with seven straight wins across LaLiga and the Champions League.

Hansi Flick is the first to do it.

Now Barcelona will look to extend its streak next Saturday at the Sánchez-Pizjuán against Sevilla.

The team has already made history, but the goal for Flick and his players is to keep extending a run that is only just beginning.

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