Picture this: a football team wins a perfect league title with 30 wins in 30 games, reaches an European final, wins every domestic trophy available and shatters every possible single-season attacking record for a team.
Then over the summer, that team loses its best player — a two-time Ballon d’Or winner — to a season-ending injury, and their best attacking player misses most of the first two months of the campaign.
Can that team somehow be better? That doesn’t sound possible, does it?
Well, meet the Ethan Hunt of women’s football: Barcelona Femení, who have won the opening 13 games of the 2022-23 season in all competitions with 59 goals scored and only 4 conceded.