Barcelona continued their emphatic start to the Spanish league season by beating Valencia 5-0, recording five goals away from home in consecutive matches for the first time in a decade.
The result means Barcelona have now scored five times in each of their past two away fixtures in the competition. Their previous match on the road produced an identical scoreline, with Elche conceding five goals against the Catalan club.
Barcelona’s latest victory came against Valencia, a side whose squad includes the core of the team that won the World Cup with Spain during the summer. Despite that connection to the country’s recent international success, Valencia were unable to prevent another heavy defeat as Barcelona maintained their relentless scoring form.
The back-to-back five-goal away performances represent a notable statistical achievement for Barcelona. The club had not reached that mark in consecutive away matches in the Spanish championship since September 2016.
On that occasion, Barcelona defeated Leganes and Sporting de Gijon while scoring five goals in each game. Nearly 10 years later, the same pattern has been repeated against Elche and Valencia.
The two results have also underlined Barcelona’s dominance in away fixtures during the current campaign. After scoring five against Elche, they matched that total in the meeting with Valencia, making it 10 goals across two successive league matches away from home.
The latest 5-0 win was particularly significant because it extended a sequence that had not been seen at the club for a decade. Barcelona’s ability to reproduce the same result in consecutive away games has placed the current run alongside the achievement from September 2016, when Leganes and Sporting de Gijon were the teams on the receiving end.
Barcelona’s latest performance therefore delivered more than another convincing league victory. It also gave the club a rare place in its recent history, as they became the first Barcelona side in 10 years to score five goals in two successive away matches in the Spanish championship.
Their victories over Elche and Valencia have produced the same final score and confirmed the scale of their current attacking output. For the second match in a row away from home, Barcelona finished with five goals, while their opponents failed to score.