Barcelona continued their perfect start to the season with a hard-fought 4-2 La Liga victory over Levante in Valencia on Sunday.Levante found themselves two goals down within 19 minutes after swift play from Barcelona led to goals for Xavi Espart and Lamine Yamal. The home side then rallied, finishing the half with six shots to Barcelona’s three.Just 42 seconds into the second half, Barcelona were awarded a penalty, won and converted by Lamine Yamal. The 19-year-old now has three doubles in his past three La Liga matches.An errant pass from Espart allowed Levante forward Iván Romero to round goalkeeper Joan García and pass the ball into the net with 12 minutes to go. With two minutes remaining, Roger Brugue burst through multiple Barcelona challenges to score a second for Levante.The home side’s hopes of a draw were definitively ended by a mazy run and finish from Karim Adeyemi in the 93rd minute.Barcelona are alone at the top of the table with five wins from five, three points ahead of Real Madrid.Atlético Madrid scored three late goals to beat Real Sociedad 3-0, as new signings Alejandro Grimaldo and Jonathan David scored their first goals since joining the club.Both sides struggled to create clear chances until Grimaldo netted an 84th-minute penalty, before David doubled their lead after finding space on the break six minutes later.Giuliano Simeone added a third in the 95th minute to complete the scoring for Atlético, who were without Julián Alvarez and Pablo Barrios due to muscle injuries as they returned to winning ways after two consecutive losses.Málaga rescued a 1-1 draw against Celta Vigo, who had dominated the game at Balaidos, while Deportivo A Coruña also drew 1-1 with Getafe after going behind in the second half.Harry Kane scored his first goal of the season to help Bayern Munich edge to a 2-1 win at promoted Elversberg in the Bundesliga on Sunday. Handed the captain’s armband with skipper Manuel Neuer rested, Kane scored with 18 minutes remaining to break a 1-1 deadlock and put the defending champions on track for victory.Bayern had taken the lead through teenage Germany winger Lennart Karl but Elversberg levelled things up just after the hour mark thanks to a stunning curling effort from Maurice Krattenmacher.Kane scored 36 league goals last campaign but after drawing a blank in his first two matches he told Dazn: “That’s football – sometimes you have to wait more than you’d have expected.“It was nice to get the goal and the three points. It’s a tough place so we’re happy with the win… We probably haven’t reached our top level yet, but it’s still early days.”RB Leipzig bounced back from their Champions League defeat at Como by thumping strugglers Hamburg 5-0 at home.Norway winger Antonio Nusa was the best of the bunch for the hosts, scoring one goal and setting up two more, including one for Christopher Nkunku, the French winger’s first since returning to Leipzig in August.Tidiam Gomis, Willi Orban and Romulo also got on the scoresheet for Leipzig, who climbed to fourth with the victory.“It’s easy to look into the past too much. You lost two games. It’s difficult, but you have to look forward,” Nusa said.“Today we had to perform and we did, so I think we had a good balance of not thinking too much of the past, but trying to attack today and I think we did it.”Hamburg’s third big defeat in their third league match this campaign leaves the six-time German champions in bottom spot in the table.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionIn Italy Juventus suffered a 3-2 defeat after a frantic finish at Sassuolo on Sunday, while Napoli ended a three-match losing run with a 1-0 home win over Bologna as both sides continued their inconsistent starts to the Serie A season.After a largely uneventful first hour, Sassuolo broke the deadlock in the 65th minute when Nemanja Matic slipped a precise pass into the area for Sebastiano Esposito, who finished with a slick one-touch stroke. Juventus levelled in the 82nd minute after Sassuolo goalkeeper Arijanet Muric misjudged a cross, allowing Edon Zhegrova to tap into an empty net.The hosts thought they had sealed victory in the 89th minute when Darryl Bakola teed up Kieron Bowie, who curled a first-time effort into the corner. Zhegrova appeared to have rescued a point for Juventus when he fired home from the edge of the area in stoppage time to complete his brace, but Sassuolo had the final say.Four minutes into stoppage time, Vasilije Adzic controlled a deep cross and curled in a superb finish into the far corner to seal victory for Sassuolo with virtually the last kick of the game.Napoli ended their recent slump as Stanislav Lobotka turned in a second-half winner to secure all three points at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.The home side dominated possession early on, but Bologna thought they had taken the lead in the seventh minute when Arthur Theate headed home. The effort was ruled out for offside following a VAR review.Lobotka eventually broke the deadlock in the 66th minute, scoring the game’s only goal to hand Napoli all three points.In Ligue 1 Paris Saint-Germain won their first match of the season and Ferran Torres kept up his goalscoring form with the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win at Brest on Sunday.Torres took five minutes to put PSG ahead, picking up a loose ball in midfield, passing to João Neves, then Ousmane Dembélé, whose back heel into Torres’ path gave the Spaniard time to bend a low shot into the corner.Torres has now netted six goals in five outings since moving to the European champions after scoring the winner for Spain in July’s World Cup final against Argentina in New York.Earlier, Lens fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 at promoted Le Mans while Lille went top of the table after an easy 2-0 triumph over Troyes.The victory put Lille top with 10 points from four matches, ahead of Monaco and Rennes on goal difference.
European football: Lamine Yamal keeps Barcelona perfect, Leipzig rout Hamburg
Barcelona continued their perfect start to the season with a hard-fought 4-2 La Liga victory over Levante while RB Leipzig beat Hamburg 5-0 in the Bundesliga











