Yamal and Raphinha fire Barcelona to La Liga opening win at Mallorca

Lamine Yamal and Raphinha some find the nett successful Barcelona’s 3-0 La Liga triumph astatine Mallorca, who had 2 players sent off.

Barcelona began the defence of its La Liga rubric with a comfy 3-0 triumph astatine Mallorca, scoring aboriginal and taking vantage of 2 first-half reddish cards for the hosts.

Raphinha and Lamine Yamal, who led Barcelona’s prolific onslaught past season, needed lone 7 minutes to impressment again connected Saturday. Yamal’s curling transverse recovered Raphinha by the acold post, and the Brazil guardant headed successful from adjacent range.

Ferran Torres’s changeable from extracurricular the country successful the 23rd was a extremity that drew complaints from Mallorca due to the fact that 1 of its players was connected the crushed aft being deed by the shot successful the caput successful the buildup.

Some Mallorca players stopped playing aft their teammate went down, but the referee allowed play to continue. Mallorca instantly complained aft Ferran scored.

The big went a antheral down 10 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Manu Morlanes was sent disconnected for a 2nd yellowish paper for fouling Yamal connected the run. His archetypal yellowish was for protesting Barcelona’s 2nd goal.

The 2nd reddish paper successful the 39th came from Mallorca striker Vedat Muriqi hitting the caput of Barcelona goalkeeper Joan García with his near ft portion reaching up for a precocious ball. The referee changed the paper from yellowish to reddish aft a video review.

Yamal made it 3-0 successful second-half stoppage clip by hitting the apical corner.

Barcelona, which won the league past play aft scoring 102 goals, was without seasoned striker Robert Lewandowski due to the fact that of an injury. Newly signed guardant Marcus Rashford went successful arsenic a substitute successful the 69th.

New Barcelona goalkeeper García did not person to enactment overmuch successful his Barcelona debut aft being signed successful the offseason successful a transportation from metropolis rival Espanyol.

Regular starting goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen is retired aft undergoing little backmost surgery, and García started up of Wojciech Szczesny and Iñaki Peña, who replaced Ter Stegen past season.

Later Saturday, Valencia hosted Real Sociedad and promoted Levante visited Alaves.

On Friday, Rayo Vallecano won astatine Girona 3-1, and Villarreal defeated promoted Oviedo 2-0.

Atletico Madrid is astatine Espanyol connected Sunday, portion Real Madrid hosts Osasuna connected Tuesday.

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