Highlights: Barcelona beat Rayo Vallecano to keep unbeaten streak in La Liga season intact
Barcelona maintained their near perfect start to the 2014-15 La Liga season with a 2-0 away win over Rayo Vallecano to stay at the top of the table. The Catalan giants have scored 19 goals and are yet to concede winning 6 out of the 7 games so far.
Claudio Bravo sets an all-time Liga record by keeping a clean sheet in the first 561 minutes of the season.
LINE-UPS
Rayo Vallecano
Toño, E. Insúa, A. Ba, Morcillo, Tito, Licá, Roberto Trashorras, Raúl Baena, G. Kakuta, Bueno, Léo Baptistão.
Subs: Cobeño, Jozabed , Quini, J. Aquino, M. Fatau, Jonathan Pereira, Manucho Gonçalves.
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Barcelona
C. Bravo, Dani Alves, J. Mathieu, Piqué, Bartra, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets, L. Messi, Neymar, Munir.
Subs: M. ter Stegen, Jordi Alba, Adriano Correia, I. Rakiti?, J. Mascherano, Pedro, Sandro Ramírez.
Bravo kept Barcelona’s clean-sheet record intact with a good diving save in the 8th minute
Rayo Vallecano 0-1 Barcelona: Messi (35’)
Rayo Vallecano 0-2 Barcelona: Neymar (36’)
Bravo did it yet again, this time in the 58th minute
It became worse for Vallecano when they got 2 players sent off after both got 2 yellows each.
First Morcillo
Then Aquino
Messi and Neymar are 2nd and 3rd on the La Liga top scorers table with 7 and 6 goals respectively with Cristiano Ronaldo leading with 10 goals.