Barca comfortably defended top spot with their third five-goal game and their fourth win in the fourth match.<\/p>\n
The defending champions also cashed in on Real Madrid’s slip-up against Real Betis this weekend with a 5-0 (2-0) win at Valencia.<\/p>\n
With big-money signing Rodri making his full debut, several stars enjoyed a fine afternoon in a Barcelona side that looked in the mood from the start. Lamine Yamal grabbed a brace, Dani Olmo came off the bench to provide two assists, while Fermin got on the scoresheet and set up two more. Raphinha and Pedri also got a goal each.<\/p>\n
Pedri drew the biggest ovation of all. The 23-year-old produced such an inspiring display that the home crowd in Valencia paid tribute to him with applause and chants.<\/p>\n
Pedri says thank you: “I wish them all the best”<\/p>\n
“The fans at Mestalla applaud me despite Valencia’s difficult situation? I have to thank everyone,” Pedri told reporters after the match. “When the fans of the opposing team celebrate you, it’s always something special, and I wish them all the best for the season.”<\/p>\n
Valencia can certainly do with that support. After four matches, the six-time Spanish champions and Champions League finalists of 2000 and 2001 are bottom of the table in Spain with just one point and one goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barca comfortably defended top spot with their third five-goal game and their fourth win in the fourth match.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,85,95,14095],"class_list":["post-81739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-barcelona","tag-laliga","tag-valencia","tag-valencia-vs-barcelona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}