MADRID, Sept. 15-- FC Barcelona's 16-year-old striker Ansu Fati needed just seven minutes to write the headlines of the fourth round of matches in La Liga. This was the time Fati needed to score his first goal in the Camp Nou and set up Frenkie de Jong for Barca's second goal in a 5-2 thrashing of Valencia. Valencia, who had replaced coach Marcelino Garcia Toral with Albert Celades three days before the game, got back into the match thanks to Kevin Gameiro, but after Gerard Pique tapped in Barca's third at the start of the second half, it was game over and Luis Suarez came back from injury to score two more goals, before Maxi Gomez's late consolation effort for the visitors. There were double celebrations in Real Sociedad's Reale Arena as the home side were able to not only inaugurate the remodeled former Anoeta Stadium, but to do so with a 2-0 win over Atletico Madrid. Martin Odegaard and recent arrival Nacho Monreal scored in the 57th and 60th minutes of the game to end the 100 percent record of a disappointing Atletico. Real Madrid produced a 'game of two halves' which saw Karim Benzema and Casemiro put them 3-0 at home to Levante in the first 45 minutes before a second half which saw Borja Majoral and Gonzalo Melero bring the visitors to the brink of snatching an unlikely point in a game which saw Eden Hazard saw his long-awaited Real Madrid debut. Sevilla went to the top of the table thanks to a spectacular 36th minute from midfielder Joan Jordan which gave Julen Lopetegui's side a 1-0 win away to Alaves. |