European football: Barcelona hammer Valencia, Barcola extends PSG’s perfect start | European club football

Barcelona turned on the fashion of their first house sport of the season on Sunday, with Fermín López, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski every netting twice in a 6-0 thrashing of Valencia. The emphatic victory propelled Barcelona to second place in La Liga on 10 factors, two factors behind leaders Actual Madrid. Valencia slumped to fifteenth place.

López opened the scoring within the twenty ninth minute with a strike from contained in the field assisted by Ferran Torres however it was after the break that Barça ran amok. Raphinha made a right away impression off the bench within the 58th minute, changing a cross from Marcus Rashford with a right-footed volley whereas López doubled his tally three minutes later with a shot from long-range, earlier than Raphinha accomplished his double within the 66th minute. Lewandowski, launched within the 68th minute, wrapped up the rout with two close-range strikes to finish an ideal afternoon for the Catalan aspect.

In Italy Luka Modric scored his first purpose for Milan to safe a 1-0 house win over Bologna, a hard-fought Serie A consequence tempered by an damage to the goalkeeper Mike Maignan and a crimson card for coach Massimiliano Allegri. A minute previous the hour mark, the 40-year-old Modric marked his first purpose for Milan, arriving completely to satisfy Alexis Saelemaekers’ cross and ending with a composed first-time strike.

Paris Saint-Germain prolonged their excellent begin to Ligue 1 with a fourth straight win by beating Lens 2-0. However the victory was overshadowed by extra accidents forward of their midweek Champions League opener.

PSG, who host Atalanta on Wednesday, have been already with out the forwards Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué, and completed the sport with extra gamers sidelined. The European champions have been in management at Parc des Princes however Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Lee Kang-in and Lucas Beraldo have been all pressured to go away the sphere with accidents.

Bradley Barcola scored each targets for PSG — the primary with a effective curling shot from exterior the field into the highest nook within the first half, and the second after the break with a low end from distance.

“The competitors that everybody in soccer loves is arising,” PSG coach Luis Enrique stated. “It’s a tough time for us as a result of now we have injured gamers. We have now to attend and see the outcomes for the three gamers who obtained injured right this moment. It’s about our capability to adapt and we have to reply as a crew.”

Teenager Ethan Mbappé, brother of Kylian, scored his first purpose in Ligue 1. His volley in damage time secured a 2-1 win for Lille in opposition to Toulouse. Lille trailed till the ninetieth minute when Nabil Bentaleb scored from the penalty spot. Earlier, Frank Magri had put Toulouse forward. Each Mbappé brothers left PSG in the summertime of 2024. Kylian joined Actual Madrid, whereas Ethan signed a three-year take care of Lille.

Borussia Mönchengladbach suffered a 4-0 house loss to Werder Bremen to make it three league video games with out scoring a purpose for his or her worst Bundesliga begin in 34 years. Gladbach, who’ve one level from three video games to this point, should be questioning how they failed to attain within the first half with extra pictures than their opponents, who have been 2-0 up by half-time with targets from Samuel Mbangula and Jens Stage. Werder added two extra after the break with Romano Schmid and Justin Njinmah to seal their first win of the season, whereas Gladbach made their worst goalless begin since 1991 after they went the primary 5 video games with no purpose. Gladbach, who’ve now gone 10 league video games with no win together with final season, are sixteenth, whereas Werder moved as much as ninth on 4 factors.

Danel Sinani scored late for St Pauli to beat Augsburg 2-1 and preserve their unbeaten begin to the season.