This Barça is forged on the basis of records and this weekend the Blaugrana set a new one. Jonatan Giráldez has added his 50th victory in the League, an unusual milestone in professional football, according to FIFA itself. The Galician coach has not lost a game since he took over the team last season, winning all 30 games last year and the 20 that have been played to date.
In addition to remaining undefeated in the domestic competition, the figures for Giráldez’s team are worthy of the unstoppable team he leads. In these fifty F League games that he has won since he arrived at the club, Barça has scored 248 goals, that is, almost five per game (4.96). The defensive aspect has also been outstanding, conceding just 15 goals (0.3 per game). No one has scored more than one goal against Giráldez’s team in the league.
“It’s very difficult to win every matchday, reaching this figure is very meritorious”, the coach assessed this Monday on Barça TV. The day after the victory over Villarreal, Giráldez spoke to the club’s media to explain how he is experiencing these successes at the helm of the team. The coach from Vigo has not forgotten that these 50 victories have been possible not only due to his work, but also to that of the players, the rest of the staff and the club’s investment in recent years.
With a team used to winning everything in domestic competition, the challenge is to find other motivations. Giráldez explains that he always tries to “give more tools to the players” to continue improving. “This implies leaving the comfort zone, to make it bigger. We have to encourage the players so that, despite the fact that we are achieving great results, they continue to grow and improve their individual version”, he explained.
The Blaugrana coach already reached 50 victories in all competitions in October last year, in his first 52 official matches with FCB, the day of the historic 9-0 win at the Johan against Benfica in the Champions League group stage. Precisely in the continental competition he thinks when he has to choose the best and the worst of this time. The “thorn”, without a doubt, the final lost in Turin against Lyon last year. As a game that he remembers with special affection, the first leg of the semifinals against Wolfsburg at the Camp Nou: “It was the ideal game because of how we played, because we had never beaten them before, nor scored, because we achieved another record at the Camp Nou… Everything came out perfect”.
