Ferran Torres scores twice as Barcelona thrash Getafe 3-0

Ferran Torres struck doubly for champions Barcelona arsenic they bushed Getafe 3-0 connected Sunday to enactment connected Real Madrid’s tails astatine the apical of La Liga.

Dani Olmo was besides connected people for the Catalans, who way leaders Madrid by 2 points aft Xabi Alonso’s broadside bushed Espanyol connected Saturday to support their 100 percent record.

Playing astatine the 6,000 capableness Johan Cruyff stadium too their grooming crushed again arsenic the nine waits for licences to reopen their renovated Camp Nou home, Barcelona dominated an unambitious Getafe team.

Despite his brace against Newcastle successful the Champions League, German manager Hansi Flick near Marcus Rashford connected the bench, with Spanish media reporting that it was due to the fact that the England planetary was precocious for a greeting meeting.

Flick has dropped different players from the line-up for the aforesaid offence successful the past, including defender Jules Kounde.

Rashford’s replacement arsenic the stand-in for injured teenage superstar Lamine Yamal, Torres, took his accidental with some hands.

The Spaniard opened the scoring with a almighty decorativeness astatine the extremity of a slick move, with Olmo backheeling the shot into his way successful the box.

Torres’s 2nd decorativeness was adjacent better, guided into the bottommost near country from extracurricular the container aft Raphinha sent him done connected goal.

The guardant crashed a changeable disconnected the barroom arsenic a archetypal fractional hat-trick beckoned.

Barca players mislaid their temper earlier the interruption arsenic Getafe enactment successful respective hard and precocious tackles, with Kounde the unfortunate of galore of them.

– ‘Too galore fouls’ –

Flick sent connected Rashford for Raphinha astatine half-time, possibly successful bid to prevention the Brazilian from a imaginable reddish card.

“A batch of the time, they don’t effort to bash thing isolated from excessively galore fouls, successful my opinion, but we managed it well… and the important happening is we got the 3 points,” Torres told DAZN.

Javi Munoz lashed a volley inches wide aboriginal successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Getafe threatened for the archetypal time.

Rashford created Barcelona’s third, zipping wrong from the close flank and unselfishly cutting the shot backmost for Olmo to finish.

On-loan from Manchester United, Rashford came adjacent to netting his archetypal league extremity for Barca but David Soria palmed distant his stinging near-post effort.

Getafe goalkeeper Soria made different awesome prevention from Rashford successful stoppage clip to bounds the harm successful what was a broad defeat.

“We struggled a batch successful attack, we weren’t capable to make virtually anything,” admitted Soria.

Barcelona question to look promoted broadside Real Oviedo connected Thursday, with Real Madrid visiting Levante connected Tuesday.

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