Barcelona won 20 of their last 23 La Liga games.

In 2015, Barcelona won all their games in which the first half ended with a draw.

Barça kept a clean sheet in the first two La Liga rounds for the 3rd consecutive season.

In Barça's last five La Liga games, they only scored two goals in the first half.

Barcelona scored only two goals in the first two La Liga games this season, the lowest tally since the start of 2008/2009.

Barcelona have now gone 16 consecutive La Liga games without trailing in the scoreline.

Málaga scored only one goal against Barcelona in the last 480 minutes of play between them.

This game was the fifth La Liga game at the Camp Nou in which Dani Alves and Piqué didn’t play, Barcelona won all of them with a clean sheet.

Vermaelen is the 343rd player to score for Barcelona in the history of La Liga.

In five of the last six Camp Nou games between Barça and Málaga, a defender scored for Barcelona.

Among Barça starters, Vermaelen had the most clearances (5), interceptions (5), aerial duels won (4) and passing accuracy (95%). He also had the second most shots on target (3).

Vermaelen needed only three games to score his first goal in La Liga. In the Premier League he scored on his debut for Arsenal.

The match had 24 successful dribbles, 15 (62%) were achieved by Messi (8) and Neymar (7) alone.

Rakitic recorded his first win ever against Málaga in nine confrontations.

Bravo has now gone 728 minutes without conceding a La Liga goal, only 26 minutes away from his personal record with Barcelona.

Claudio Bravo kept four clean sheets in his last five games against Málaga.

Messi failed to give an assist in his first five appearances with Barça for the first season since 2007/2008.

Messi failed to score in the first two rounds of La Liga for the first season since 2007/2008.