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THE STATS BEHIND ANOTHER RECORD-BREAKING SEASON FOR BARCA AND LUIS ENRIQUE


Lionel Messi and Co. celebrated yet another Liga title victory on Saturday, pipping rivals Real Madrid to the post, and we take a look at the numbers behind their triumph
Barcelona have won another La Liga title after beating Granada 3-0, and they have done so in some style.

The victory marks Barca's sixth title victory in the past eight seasons, their 24th in total, and they have earned their latest piece of silverware in swashbuckling fashion.

Barca, led by the fearsome attacking triumvirate of Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez, have scored a staggering 112 goals in La Liga in 2015-16 but, amazingly, that haul is only the third best of their time in the top-flight; they scored 115 in 2012-13 and 114 in 2011-12.

Suarez - the third player to score 40 goals in a league season after Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - netted a hat-trick as Granada were downed, his sixth hat-trick of the season. No other player across Europe's top five leagues has scored more than three.

Yet, despite their imperious form Barca have won the league with 91 points, the lowest title-winning total they have recorded since 2008-09, when they chalked up 87 under Pep Guardiola.

The Catalan giants are heavily indebted to the MSN trio, too, with Suarez (40), Messi (26) and Neymar (24) scoring an incredible 90 goals between them.

And, finally, Luis Enrique is the seventh manager to win the two consecutive Spanish league titles, and is the second boss to do so for Barca, after Guardiola.

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