Facts and figures from La Rosaleda
-This was Barça’s sixth win at La Rosaleda, the other five all came in the league and were all achieved with at least a two goal advantage.
- Pedro and Piqué scoring means that 10 different players have scored so far in this season’s Cup run - Piqué, Cesc, Puyol, Villa, Iniesta, Alexis, Messi, Thiago, Adriano and Pedro.
-Barça’s second goal last night was also Gerard Piqué’s second of the season following his goal against Athletic Bilbao in the league.
- Pedro scored his fourth goal in 2013 after featuring in five games.
- Leo Messi has scored in each of the last 15 games he’s started.
- Barça have never lost when Andres Iniesta has scored – 40 wins and four draws.
- Barça enjoyed 70% of possession, completing a total of 776 passes, against 253 by Malaga.
- Barça had 15 shots compared to Malaga’s seven.
- Five yellow cards were shown to Barça players, with just eight fouls committed, with Malaga making 21 fouls and getting just three bookings.
- Xavi Hernández was the player who completed most passes successfully -116 out of 138 attempted
- Mascherano won the ball back most – 11 times.
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