Barcelona sets another club record playing mostly reserves and kids

It happened about as unglamorously as it possibly could, but Barcelona has broken another club record.

This latest milestone was reached in a dud of a game, a 1-1 draw in the return leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals at Valencia, after Barca had won the first game 7-0 a week earlier. Barcelona went behind in the first half when Alvaro Negredo sauntered through the Barca back line on a long ball and got a lucky bounce off goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen to put Valencia ahead.

But eventually, in the 84th minute, 19-year-old Wilfrid Kaptoum finished off a nice attack to equalize with his first senior team goal.

While it wasn't much of a game, and Valencia was probably the better team – the rarest of occurrences under embattled English rookie manager Gary Neville – the tie means Barcelona has now gone unbeaten in 29 consecutive games in all competitions. Barca hadn't lost since Oct. 3, when it stumbled 2-1 at Valencia – the second league loss in three games, and the only two of the season thus far in any competition. That broke a club record set in the 2010-11 season. The Catalans just did so in a game both teams had given up on ahead of time, fielding mostly reserves and kids.

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Now, in the wake of what was surely the least impressive or captivating performance of that 29-game streak, we find ourselves returning to the question over where this present incarnation of Barcelona ranks among the other recent teams. Which is to say, what's been the high point of the greatest dynasty in the game's history?

Was it the 2008-09 team that reinvented the sport and won the treble? The 2010-11 team that last set the unbeaten record and won 16 straight La Liga games and won the Champions League again? The 2012-13 that won La Liga with 100 points, a record, and did so with a 15-point lead over runner-up Real Madrid, also a record? Last season's team, which also won the treble?

These things are hard to quantify. But this season's Barca has now broken the unbeaten streak record, reached the Copa del Rey final and remains on track to not just repeat the treble but, for the first time, add the Club World Cup to the trophy case in the same season – potentially making it a quadruple.

And that has to merit some consideration in this conversation about the club's greatest team as well.

Leander Schaerlaeckens is a soccer columnist for Yahoo Sports. Follow him on Twitter @LeanderAlphabet.