Dani Olmo leads Barcelona to city derby win over Espanyol

Dani Olmo has made nan astir retired of his return arsenic a starter pinch Barcelona

MADRID -- Dani Olmo made nan astir retired of his return arsenic a starter pinch Barcelona, scoring doubly to lead nan Catalan nine to a 3-1 triumph complete Espanyol successful nan metropolis derby connected Sunday successful nan Spanish league.

Raphinha besides scored for Barcelona, which a week agone had routed Real Madrid 4-0 successful nan clasico astatine nan Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Barcelona is now 9 points up of Madrid, whose crippled astatine Valencia connected Saturday was postponed because of nan deadly floods that killed much than 200 group successful confederate Spain past week.

The crippled betwixt Villarreal and Rayo Vallecano besides was postponed, arsenic were 3 second-division games scheduled to beryllium played successful nan region this weekend.

The triumph extended Barcelona's 27-match unbeaten streak against Espanyol successful nan league. Espanyol, sitting successful 17th place, has mislaid six of its past 7 convention matches.

Olmo scored his double successful his return arsenic a starter aft hurting his correct hamstring connected Sept. 15 against Girona. He had travel disconnected nan chair successful nan team's wins against Bayern Munich successful nan Champions League and Madrid successful nan Spanish league.

He put Barcelona up successful nan 12th infinitesimal from adjacent scope aft a neat transverse by Lamine Yamal pinch nan extracurricular of his near foot. Olmo's 2nd extremity came pinch a onslaught from extracurricular nan area successful nan 31st.

In his first play pinch Barcelona, Olmo now has 5 goals successful 5 matches.

Raphinha added to nan lead successful nan 23rd by redirecting nan shot into nan nett pinch 1 touch aft Marc Casadó's agelong transverse into nan area.

Barcelona has outscored its convention opponents 40-11 successful 12 matches. Madrid has nan second-best onslaught pinch 21 goals scored.

Espanyol thought it had moved person successful nan 27th but Jofre Carrera's extremity was called disconnected aft video reappraisal because of offside. It besides had a extremity by Álvaro Tejero disallowed for offside successful nan 58th, past Javi Puado yet scored a extremity that counted successful nan 63rd.

Barcelona besides had a extremity called disconnected successful stoppage time.

Before nan match, Barcelona honored those who received awards astatine nan Ballon d'Or ceremonial past week, including Yamal, who earned nan Kopa Trophy grant for champion Under-21 player, and Aitana Bonmatí, who won nan grant for nan world’s champion female shot player. Barcelona besides won nan champion women’s squad prize.

There was besides a infinitesimal of soundlessness successful grant of nan flood victims, arsenic has taken spot successful each convention matches this weekend.

Giuliano Simeone, boy of Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone, scored his first extremity pinch nan nine successful nan team's 2-0 triumph against Las Palmas.

The extremity came much than 20 years aft Simeone's past convention extremity pinch nan nine arsenic a player.

Alexander Sorloth netted Atletico's 2nd extremity connected Sunday, helping move nan nine backmost to 3rd place, 10 points down Barcelona.

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