Barça play towards Rayo Vallecano tonight
Raphinha and Fermín López have been sensational for Barcelona this season, topping the membership’s scoring charts after every struck twice within the 5-0 win over Elche and as soon as within the 2-0 victory towards Athletic Bilbao. Tonight brings a recent target towards Rayo Vallecano: rating once more and they be a part of an elite group of 14 gamers to have discovered the online in Barcelona’s first three La Liga matches.
According to the newspaper “Mundo Deportivo“, Lionel Messi was the final participant to handle it, in his final season with Barcelona (2020-2021), scoring twice towards Elche (3-0), twice towards Athletic Bilbao (2-3) and as soon as towards Villarreal (4-0).
Curiously, Barcelona’s all-time high scorer with 672 targets pulled off this treble solely in his final season in La Liga.
Barcelona’s golden period produced others. Samuel Eto’o hit 4 targets in three matches in 2006-2007, Zlatan Ibrahimović scored 5 in his first 5 in 2009-2010, and Cesc Fàbregas managed 4 within the opening 4 of 2011-2012.
Other names scored within the first three matches and then stopped: Ángel Arocha (1930-1931), Josep Samitier (1931-1932), Josep Maria Fusté (1963-1964), Pedro Zaballa (1966-1967), Bernd Schuster (1981-1982), Hristo Stoichkov (1990-1991) and Luis Enrique (2002-2003).
Ladislao Kubala went additional nonetheless, netting in all 4 opening matches of the 1953-1954 season, a feat matched by Cayetano Re in 1964-1965.
César Rodríguez shares the document with Ibrahimović for the best scoring run at first of a La Liga season. He struck in three matches in 1947-1948, then stretched it to 5 in 1950-1951, scoring 9 targets (4-2-1-1-1). It’s a tantalising problem for Raphinha and Fermín López.