It was that bad. “They’ve had the worst start to a season I can remember, it’s been awful”. At half-time, I said I was sorry I only had three substitutes as I wanted to change six.
While the early goal from Wolfsburg shocked the home fans, Manchester United created a hatful of chances in the first half, before Mata converted a penalty to level the scores.
Barcelona won the corresponding fixture last season 1-0 in April thanks to a Jeremy Mathieu goal but Celta was victorious by the same margin on its last visit to the Camp Nou – Joaquin Larrivey netting a 55th-minute victor.
That much-publicised “goal drought” was ended on Saturday as Kane put the Lilywhites 3-1 up in their 4-1 home win over Manchester City – and he is keen to go on a run now and keep proving his doubters wrong.
After two tough away fixtures where Chelsea and Mourinho continued the historic trend of not winning, we now get to face off against Southampton, a team we failed to beat in both tries last season.
The Chilean’s treble was also a milestone for manager Arsene Wenger, with it being the 30th League hat trick of his Arsenal managerial career, only Liverpool have managed more Premier League hat tricks in that time.
La Liga’s defending champions saw their 100% start to the season ended, as Iago Aspas’ brace and goals from Nolito and John Guidetti inflicted defeat on them.