Barcelona showed the world on Sunday that they are a team with so much firepower after they embarrassed Valencia 6-0 at Johan Cruyff stadium without Lamine Yamal.
In front of 5000 fans, Barca put on a quality show of attacking dynamism and elite finishing even without their most important attacker Lamine Yamal.
Yamal missed Valencia’s visit due to a problem in his pubic area which stopped him from training. That was not a problem for Fermin Lopez, Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski as they all grabbed two goals to help Barcelona to a much-needed 3 points.
Chelsea summer target Fermin Lopez was brilliant on the night. The 22-year-old opened the scoring with a beautiful finish from an awkward angle to give his side the lead after just 29 minutes.
Barca probed and probed throughout the remainder of the first half, but they could not find a second. However, with the introduction of Raphinha in the second half, the Catalans became more dynamic.
English forward Marcus Rashford found Raphinha near post with a brilliant pass, and the former Leeds attacker touched Rashford’s pass home for Barcelona’s second. Fermin scored the third before Raphinha added a fourth.
Robert Lewandowski came on in the 68th minute for Fermin Lopez and wasted no time in finding the back of the net 7 minutes later.
4 minutes before the 90, Lewandowski wrapped up the game with another brilliant goal as Barcelona keep pace with in-form Real Madrid, who still have a 100% record this season.
