Barcelona seems to be ready to fight until the end for La Liga's top honor, considering they are thrashing almost every opponent that dares to enter Camp Nou Stadium. On Saturday, Los Blaugranas kept one more clean sheet at home, and treated their fans with a 3-0 win against Athletic.
During that game, Paco Alcácer ended his goal drought and scored his first goal for the Spanish giants, while Lionel Messi secured himself one more record, as he became Barcelona's all-time free kick top scorer.
Most Free-Kick Scored @FCBarcelona
— Neymar Jr (@neystats) February 4, 2017
Messi 27
Koeman 26
another Record!! King Messi pic.twitter.com/pvjEiCR8xR
With that goal, Messi also reached the top of the goal scoring table, matching Luis Suarez's tally of 16. Both strikers are deep in the European Golden Boot race with those numbers.
Messi joins Luis Suarez on 16 goals, the duo setting the pace as the leading scorers in #LaLigaSantander.pic.twitter.com/IHGFtdjxre
— LaLiga (@LaLigaEN) February 4, 2017
But Messi wasn't the only player to set a club record. On Saturday evening, Fernando Torres entered Atlético's histoy by scoring against Leganés.
Who better to score goal number for @atletienglish in #LaLigaSantander!@Torres #AtletiLeganes pic.twitter.com/dRcpVIw59U
— LaLiga (@LaLigaEN) February 4, 2017
This week, two games had to be postponed due to extreme weather conditions. Despite that fact, here's how the top of La Liga looks after 21 games (for most teams).