Barcelona manager Hansi Flick didn't come out for his postmatch news conference at Celta Vigo on Sunday sword in hand, dressed in the gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius' leather tunic, roaring, "Are you not entertained?" But he should have.
Chin jutted out, hostile stare, arms akimbo, challenging everyone present with Russell Crowe's "Gladiator" follow-up line: "Is this not why you are here?"
Flick's LaLiga champions had just completed their fourth match of the season that yielded six or more goals. The 4-2 win in Vigo marked 66 goals scored and conceded in 14 games -- that's more than four per outing.