Camp Nou without mercy: Barcelona's train crushes Getafe with minimal effort

The newspaper Mundo Deportivo ran through the key moments of a match Barcelona controlled from the first whistle.

Gavi, Rodri and Gerard fed vertical passes into the visitors' defensive wall, with Dani Olmo drifting between the lines to pull it apart.

Lamine Yamal, meanwhile, struggled to beat his man. Two or three defenders shadowed him constantly. That left Barcelona a man up elsewhere, and Koundé set about exploiting the space to push forward.

At the other end, Chávez Espart played more as a midfielder than a full-back, just as he had done before.

Gordon didn't wait long. He burst in from the left through the opposition block and let fly. The shot lacked power, but it clipped defender Martín and nestled past goalkeeper David Soria.

Barcelona kept probing the tight spaces, searching for the vertical pass to crack them open.

Jesús set off down the left and hunted for the room to shoot. When he found it, he unleashed a ball that wrong-footed David Soria, who was moving the other way as it settled inside the net.

Getafe dared to push forward more after the break, and Mojica fired a ball from the left that flashed past the post, brushing the outside of the net.

Barcelona kept their composure, though, and gradually forced Getafe back towards their own half again.

Rodri dictated the tempo. Always in the right place, he directed the movements of his team-mates.

One of Xavi Espart's bursts near the Getafe box teed up a through ball from Dani Olmo. It reached his team-mate, who struck it straight down the middle, and Soria dealt with the effort comfortably.

Yamal whipped a cross from the right towards the far post. Kounde arrived from behind to glance the ball just enough for it to nestle inside the net, Barcelona's third.

Lamine Yamal could have grabbed one himself, but he squandered a relatively easy chance, shooting wide after a cross from Adeyemi. The match ended in a comfortable win for the hosts.