Anthony Gordon scored his first goal for Barcelona as the Spanish champions extended their perfect start in La Liga with a 3-0 home win over Getafe. The England international opened the scoring in the second minute and Gabriel Jesus added another after half an hour for the league leaders, who have won every match they have played this season. Jules Koundé tucked home the third from Lamine Yamal’s cross to cap Barça’s solid win at the Camp Nou.
Barça moved five points clear of second-placed Atlético Madrid, who won 2-1 at Alavés earlier, and lead Real Madrid, fourth, by nine points before Los Blancos host Villarreal later on. Barça were without their top scorer, Raphinha, who sustained a hamstring problem during the international break with Brazil. Hansi Flick replaced him with his compatriot Jesus and his side came roaring out of the blocks.
Gordon, who has impressed since joining this summer, grabbed his first Barça goal with a low deflected effort after bundling his way past three players. The winger was their brightest spark in the first half, continuing his fine goalscoring form for England in the recent Nations League matches. Eric García forced a save from Getafe’s David Soria with a drive from distance as Flick’s side controlled the game.
The Getafe defender Zaid Romero gave the ball away in his own box for Barça’s second, passing it straight to Jesus, who stroked into the bottom corner. Soria denied Dani Olmo before Yamal teed up Koundé for the third. The defender, making a record 194th appearance for Barça for a French player, overtaking Eric Abidal, was on hand to turn home from close range from Lamine.
Rayo Vallecano’s La Liga match against Athletic Club was abandoned because of home fans at Vallecas stadium throwing objects on to the pitch in a protest against the club president, Raúl Martin Presa. In the 13th minute, Rayo fans threw paper aeroplanes, rubber balls and other objects, leading the referee to pause the game and send the players to the dressing rooms. After the teams came back out to resume play, the fans continued to throw objects and the match was abandoned with the score goalless.
In Germany Augsburg’s Robin Fellhauer scored after eight seconds against Bayern Munich on Saturday to record the fastest goal in Bundesliga history, but the visiting German champions twice came from a goal down to snatch a 2-2 draw. Fellhauer benefited from a blunder by Bayern’s Manuel Neuer as the keeper tried to clear, but sent the ball to Fellhauer who beat the record held jointly by Kevin Volland and Karim Bellarabi by one second. Bayern, whose only league defeat in their past 48 matches was by Augsburg in January, upped their game after the break, and Ismael Saibari scored the equaliser.
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