Messi and Neymar are two peas in a pod
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With a double each versus Elche, the pair have now both scored in the same game for the eleventh time this season
FC Barcelona rolled past Elche, the only team they have faced four times this year. Barça have won all four, with 18 goals for and none against. Check out some interesting facts and figures surrounding Saturday's matchup.
- Leo Messi has now scored in three consecutive games, his second best streak this season. He had a five-game streak earlier this season and scored the same number of goals—six—as in the last three matches.
- Neymar is second on the team in scoring and, on Saturday at the Martinez Valero, he got his first double wearing Barça colours away from Camp Nou. Before the Elche match, he had four doubles and two hat-tricks, all coming at home.
- Messi and Neymar both scored in the same game for the eleventh time this season
- Piqué's goal at Elche was his fourth of the season. He had previously scored against Espanyol and Córdoba in the league and against APOEL in the Champions League.
- Pedro is bearing down on 100 goals for the club. He currently has 96, 45 of which have come on the road.
- Rafinha and Bartra started in a La Liga match for the time since November 8, the day Barca won 2–1 at Almería.
- Since that day in November, Luis Suárez had started every league match. But, against Elche, the Uruguayan didn't play a single minute.
- Sergi Roberto played his 50th game with the first team. In games he has played, Barça have 42 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats, while Roberto has scored four goals.
- Saturday was Barça's first 6–0 road win since May 20th, 2007 when two goals from Messi and one each from Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Iniesta and Zambrotta led a rout at Atlético Madrid.
- These graphics show the passes made between Messi and Neymar in Saturday's Elche match. The first shows Messi's passes to Neymar, while the second shows the passes Messi received from Neymar.
