[FULL REACTION] Raphinha's hat trick highlights Barcelona's 7-0 win vs. Real Valladolid | ESPN FC

and what a start to the season it has been from Barcelona they will head into the international break top of the table in La Liga it's been a one 100% start for hansy Flicks men winning all of their opening games and head and shoulders Above the Rest so far when it comes to the chasing pack there had been the doubts about them coming into the season but there are no doubts right now and this is with registration issues with signing problems and also with players getting injured early in the season Luis it's hard not to get excited about what we've team from Barcelona so far yeah totally true because we want to to keep calm and see that there is going to be a long season when Once the champions league is back with the cop re rotations the injury ofar benal you just mention is incredible that this Barcelona side with all the the sound the the noise that is around the team not to the pitch they they have managed to to to keep it tight to keep it close to to make a small family all together and to prove it in and get it the results today it wasn't only about the results the first three games we saw a good Barcelona by periods but today overall was a fantastic 90 minutes performance uh the goals the the way that this Barcelona play the combination the link up between the players from the midd to the front but also the players who came into the second half were really really impressive a younger into the in the in the center back also Eric Garcia playing as a holding Midfield there is an opportunity maybe he can get cado he got involved also into the game for for 60 70 minutes in in replacement of of Bernard I think this is a very good well trained team and he's been just in a short time so expectations were not actually very high we we needed to wait to see what H Fleck was going to do but he's playing well he's looking good and the results are there so I think it's been a fantastic start for Barcelona Rafia is looking very good and a hattick today just to top it all off absolutely and and Rafa it's it's actually only part of the conversation and only part of the story of Barcelona and he was playing on the right hand side looking to cut to the inside now lamal appears in the picture and obviously says yeah this position on the right hand side is mine and so Rafa has to look within himself and say okay where can I play in this team where can I make myself useful and what he has done is finding that space between the left hand side and drifting inside and in finding that space he's actually found himself a position which he has been EXP explosive he has been Dynamic he has been been able to combine and he has found a final touch the productivity from Rafa has been outstanding the performances have been outstanding but the performance and productivity from Barcelona as a whole has been outstanding I tell you this was a backside whooping a whooping like we haven't seen Barcelona give a team in a long long time go back to last season teams like bayad B wasn't in in La Liga but teams in that sort of level in the in the lower tier of La Liga were given Barcelona issues big issues they were losing points to this sort of teams we haven't seen this sort of performance from Barcelona in a long long time so if you're a Barcelona fan and you wanted reasons to get excited get excited because while you're playing well and you're outstanding and you're winning games and you're scoring goals the other team Real Madrid they're struggling they can't score goals they don't have rhythm they don't have structure you do the last thing that Barcelona wanted was to have a stoppage to have a FIFA international break because they're flying other teams are not so tell me is it reason to reassess this season going forward with what we've seen from Real Madrid start and what we've seen from Barcelona I think the expectations have to change dramatically at least for for for those of us on the outside you watch Barcelona play like this if they're able to sustain it then of course we can reassess but we need to see that sustainability and we need to see that consistency so far so good from Barcelona I cannot tell you how impressed I was about today's performance and of course you can talk about Bay Le how were but this is the same bayite team that made it all so very difficult for Real Madrid last weekend and so look we we look for we look for competition we look for for things that we can compare between the two teams because they're always compared to each other Barcelona completely dominant against the same bayite team and by and Real Madrid struggled for a long time against against the same Club if you look at things from that sort of angle you're looking at Barcelona and saying man they may be for real now I know Lu you pick Barcelona to win the title this season before a ball was even kicked in La Liga is it going to be as close as some would have thought between Real Madrid in Barcelona this year I hope it is I mean after what we've seen I can I'm not assure you for for 100% that he will be like this but it looks like it's going to be of course everything can change and there is a long season and Atletico Madrid is going to be there I'm sure of that I know that Real Madrid is going to be back they go fantastic players and they will will get back to uh good results and to better football not fantastic football because we haven't seen Real Madrid playing fantastic football quite a while so they got these periods of that they look like the The Impossible team to beat but I'm sure that it's going to be very tight and well that's good for us because we enjoy we don't want to see Real Madrid just cruising and not having any competition we saw last year Jona getting closer but they was the only team because Barcelona couldn't manage to keep the pace so yeah I would love to see um three teams at least fighting and if we can see someone else I would love to see a four team Race a four competition race for for the LA Lia it will be fantastic again I put also VI on the top four I like what I've seen so far from them so hopefully they can keep that consistency too Shaka who did you have winning the title and who have you got right now uh I had Real Madrid winning the title and I'm going to just about stick with real listen I I think I while Barcelona have been good Real Madrid by their standards have been disappointing I think think Real Madrid only get better I will say at the same time though this start that we saw from Barcelona I did not expect I even when the draw with the the fixtures were were were made available you do not think Barcelona go four games in um 100% at this point not only do you not think that you don't if we wanted to we could sit here and talk for half an hour about Rafia with with his hattrick if we decided not to we could talk about um Robert levandowski and how much like his old self he started to look if he decided not to be we could talk about danu we could talk about linal that was it was so good um Bon was that good uh going forward we could talk about pedre and um and and cadoo in in Midfield and how good both of them look just about the only Department we we can't wax lyrical about is a defense because there was absolutely no need because they just they they they just looked so comfortable and granted is very delayed but that that's the that's the opponent Barcelona just looked so comfortable throughout and at no point um even in the season before last where they won the league I don't think they'd look this comfortable and so it's a great sign to see it's something I did not expect uh and long may it continue at the very least that we have a real race on who have you got right now I'm kind of in shakas Camp I Real Madrid and I'm going to stick with I mean if you think of all the things we're talking about now it's the complete OPP opposite of what we were saying at the start of the Season everything that we've just said we were talking about this is what Real Madrid's going to do Real Madrid this Real Madrid that Barcelona how's it going to be the new the new coach coming in it's going to take some beding in my goodness I mean this Barcelona side is is as fluid as it's been for years I mean you talk about the man on the ball has so many options you know he highlighted that that y milum m pass but he had three other passes on as well and that's a exactly the opposite of of Real Madrid they going forward aren't making any options they're not making opportunities and they're certainly not scoring goals so so far in terms of comparing these two they' flip-flopped big time okay well linal you guys have all been mentioning him didn't have a goal today but was brilliant in his stats so far this season thanks so much for being with us Lis this is definitely a day you can go and enjoy one of those famous sangrias yes Lum man look at these stats for him and his last 16 games and by the way just a reminder he's only 17 himself 16 wins zero draws zero losses three goals and 11 assists and on top of all of that a goal contribution in eight straight games these are Big Boy numbers for linum Mal at 17 years old at Barcelona [Music]