► Keita has only missed 5 of the team’s 60 games so far this season - the European games against Panathinaikos (5-1) and both the games against Rubin Kazan (1-1 and 2-0), as well as the two home league games against Seville (5-0) and Malaga (4-1).

► Bojan started the game after a month out with injury –he’d not played since the 3-1 win over Almeria.

► Maxwell, who had been injured since the win over Osasuna, also made his reappearance after injury.

► Oriol Romeu made his league debut, having previously figured in the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup against Seville.

► It was also Jonathon dos Santos’ first league game of the season at the Camp Nou, having made his debut away to Villarreal and also played in a Cup, a Champions League and a Super Cup game.

► Bartra played his first league game of this season, having debuted last season at the Vicente Calderon.

► Bartra and Thiago were the players who recovered most possession- 9 balls each.

► The team have kept a clean sheet in 10 of the 19 games played –conceding just 10 goals in all.

► Curiously enough, this wasn’t the first time the Deportivo team have made a guard of honour for Guardiola’s team – they did the same in the last game of the 08-09 season in the last game of the season at Riazor.