The quintet returned to tearing apart Barcelona’s nets at home after an absence that lasted 51 years, which they received at that time from their eternal rival, Real Madrid.
Barcelona, along with its coach Xavi, conceded five heavy goals from its guest, Villarreal, on Saturday, ending the match 3-5, after which team coach Xavi announced his departure next June.
Xavi equaled the record for the worst Spanish coach in the history of the Catalan club after being eliminated by Athletic Bilbao in the quarter-finals of the Spanish Cup, officially becoming the worst with 26 losses, surpassing Joan Noguez by one match.
Villarreal’s five-game match is the twelfth match in which the Catalan team lost by five goals as a final result, as the Barcelona and Malaga match was in the fourteenth round of the 2003-2004 season, when the confrontation ended 5-1 for the Andalusian team.
The first five-pointer to score against Barcelona goes back to the year 1929 when Athletic Bilbao beat Barcelona 5-1 in the 1929-1930 season, while in the thirties the first three five-pointers were known from the eternal rival Real Madrid 5-1 in 1930 and from Arenas a year later with a score of 5-0 before He repeats his 5-1 victory in 1933.
In the 1950s, Barcelona lost five times to Real Santander in 1950, ending 5-1, before Real Madrid gave it another five-goal defeat within 3 years from 1951 to 1951. The first match ended 5-1, and the other did not score in Barcelona.
Real Madrid scored its last hat-trick against Barcelona in El Clásico, round 18 of the 1962-1963 season, which ended 5-1, while the 1964-1965 season witnessed Levante’s 5-1 victory over Barcelona, making Real Sociedad’s goals in 1969 the last hat-trick that Barcelona would experience until 2003.
