So yesterday I got this idea stuck in my head – wanted to dig into how Barcelona always dominates Leganes every single time they play. Figured it’d be simple, just Google their head-to-head stats right? Boy was I wrong.
Started by typing “Barcelona vs Leganes record” into my phone while eating breakfast. First five results showed these fancy soccer sites requiring logins or subscriptions. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Refined my search like three times adding words like “free” and “full history” but kept hitting paywalls.
Decided to try my dusty old laptop thinking maybe mobile was the problem. Went straight to Barcelona’s official website thinking they’d have archives. Scrolled through their “History” section for twenty damn minutes – found trophy lists and player profiles but zero match records. Closed that tab so hard I almost cracked the screen.
Pulled up Leganes’ Twitter next thinking smaller clubs might share older stats. Their feed only went back to 2020 posts, total dead end. Then remembered this football stats forum I bookmarked years ago. Logged in after resetting my password twice, searched the threads… only to find outdated posts from 2017 missing half the data.
Around lunchtime I got stubborn. Opened six browser tabs with different soccer databases. Compared whatever free glimpses each site showed. Counted wins manually like a caveman – Barca won? Tick mark on my notepad. Draw? Circle. Took two hours cross-checking because some sites counted cup games differently than league matches.
Finally pieced together that Barcelona beat Leganes 8 times out of their last 10 meetings. Only one draw in there. Felt like Sherlock Holmes except instead of solving murders I proved what we already knew – Barcelona smashes them every damn year. Funny how something that seems easy turns into a whole damn research project.