Barcelona beat,hammered,thrashed (etc) Deportivo La Coruna 5 – 0 and are in record breaking form.The 50 points from the first half of the season gives them the most points ever for a team at this stage.This is from the time that the league has consisted of 20 teams and awarded three points for a win.The previous holder was last season’s Real Madrid squad, who had 47 points.Barca have also scored an impressive 59 goals, at a awe inspiring average of 3.1 per game. It they keep beating teams by 5 goal margins and Messi keeps scoring hat tricks then in the second half of the season, they should finish with 118 goals.
The current record is 107, which was scored by John Toshack’s 1989-90 Real Madrid team.