Raphinha scored the first hat-trick of his career and provided two assists to lead Barcelona to a 7-0 victory over Real Valladolid in La Liga on Saturday.
Hansi Flick's team head into the international break as league leaders with a perfect 12 points from four games, seven points ahead of arch-rivals Real Madrid, who have played one game less. Against a team that gave Madrid a tough game last weekend, Barça were ruthless, increasing their goal tally to 13 in four games.
Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski put the hosts two goals ahead with counterattack goals four minutes apart. They controlled long balls from Pau Cubarsi and Lamine Yamal and then shot cleanly past Valladolid goalkeeper Karl Hein. Jules Koundé extended the lead by converting a corner in stoppage time before the break.
After Lewandowski hit the post early in the second half, Raphinha scored twice from close range to extend Barca's lead to five, with assists from Lewandowski and Yamal. The Brazilian winger continued his masterpiece by setting up new signing Dani Olmo, who scored in the 82nd minute on his first appearance for Barça.
Olmo had already hit the post twice and missed a shot from close range, leaving Barcelona with 23 shots on goal to Valladolid's five. Substitute Ferran Torres rounded off the game in the 85th minute after another Raphinha assist.
Atletico Madrid are four points behind Barça in second place after Ángel Correa's stoppage-time counterattack goal gave them a hard-fought 1-0 win at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday.
In an entertaining game in which both teams struggled to break through, the visitors finally took the lead in the second minute of stoppage time. Alexander Sorløth stole the ball from defender Iñigo Lekue on the halfway line and fed substitute Correa, who rounded the goalkeeper and slotted the ball into the empty net.
Villarreal go into the international break in third place after a 1:1 draw at Valenciawho remain bottom of the table despite picking up their first point of the season. Hugo Doro's opener for the hosts was cancelled out by Ayozé Pérez just before half-time, and the visitors fought back after Pape Gueyé was sent off in the second half.
In Serie A, NaplesRomelu Lukaku and André Zambo Anguissa scored in stoppage time to secure a dramatic 2-1 comeback win over newly promoted Parma. The spirited visitors, who beat Milan 2-1 at home last week, looked set to pull off another upset victory thanks to a 19th-minute penalty from Ange-Yoan Bonny.
Another frustrating evening for Antonio Conte took a turn when Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki received a second yellow card for a foul on David Neres. With no substitutes available, defender Enrico Del Prato was forced to take over in goal.
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Parma held out until the second minute of stoppage time when new signing Lukaku equalised with a low shot from 12 metres. Four minutes later, Zambo Anguissa's header sealed the win in front of an enthusiastic home crowd.
Milan are still winless after three games, but Rafael Leão's powerful finish secured the Rossoneri a point away in LazioStrahinja Pavlovic headed the visitors ahead after clearing Boulaye Dia's shot off the line at the other end, but Lazio hit back through Taty Castellanos and then took the lead through Dia's close-range strike before Leão pulled one back in the 72nd minute.
Marseille are top of Ligue 1 after Mason Greenwood's first-half brace set up a 3-1 win at Toulouse. Greenwood picked up two assists from Luis Henrique in 60 seconds before Frank Magri was sent off for the hosts. Henrique's shot then deflected off the unfortunate Charlie Cresswell to make it 3-0. Greenwood wasted the chance to score a hat-trick before Shavy Babicka pulled one back for Les Violets.
Nantes is in second place after Mostafa Mohamed crowned a 3-1 win at Montpellier with a late goal. Brest took their first points of the season with a 4-0 home win against Saint-Étienne and pushed the promoted team off the bottom of the table.
