Barcelona suffer five league defeats in 26 games for first time in 16 years
You have to go back to the 2003-2004 for such negative numbers in La Liga
It's not normal for Barcelona to have lost five league games after 26 rounds of the season. It's not happened for a long time, in concrete, for 16 years.
Frank Rijkaard was in charge the last time it happened in 2003-04. In fact, in that season, they lost six games. Under Pep Guardiola, Tito Vilanova, 'Tata' Martino, Luis Enrique and two seasons under Ernesto Valverde, it never. happened.
However, this season under first Valverde (three losses) and now Quique Setien, they have already lost five league games: at San Mamés against Athletic Club (1-0), at Granada (2-0), Levante (3-1), Valencia (2-0) and Real Madrid (2-1).
FIve defeats to which you can also add the Supercopa loss to Atletico (2-3), which came with Valverde on the bench, and the Copa del Rey loss to Athletic Club (1-0), which came under Setien.
It's not been seen since 2003-2004. Rijkaard's team lost to Valencia (0-1), Depor (0-2), Villarreal (J.12), 5-1 at Malaga, 1-2 in the Clásico del Camp Nou (J.15) and then against Santander (3-0, J.18). They ended the season second to Valencia on 72. points.
Since then, they've never suffered more than four losses by this stage of the season. In 2017-18 they almost went unbeaten, losing their penultimate game of the season when the title was already won.
Last season, they lost two of their first 26 games in charge, at Leganes and at home to Real Betis.
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