Robert Lewandowski smashed home a rebound to earn Barcelona a 2-1 win against Athletic Bilbao in an absorbing La Liga clash on Saturday.
A deflected strike by Lamine Yamal in the 24th minute gave Barça the lead. The visitors levelled in the 42nd minute when Oihan Sancet struck home from the penalty spot after Pau Cubarsí fouled Álex Berenguer inside the box.
Lewandowski scored the winner in the 75th minute from a rebound off the goalkeeper, scoring a first-touch effort to give Barça their second win in as many games.
They are now level with Celta Vigo at the top the league standings with six points. Athletic are 15th with one point from two matches.
In Serie A, Parma pulled off a shock 2-1 victory over Milan, extending Paulo Fonseca’s wait for his first win as coach of the visiting side.
Parma stunned Milan with an early opener through Dennis Man, who struck with his first touch after 83 seconds. Christian Pulisic equalised for Milan in the 66th minute, after Rafael Leão had fed a low pass into the path of the American midfielder. But Matteo Cancellieri, on as a substitute, restored Parma’s lead 11 minutes later.
Milan, who scored two last-gasp goals to secure a 2-2 draw in their season opener against Torino last weekend, are 16th in the standings on one point.
Elsewhere, a second-half brace from Jamie Bynoe-Gittens earned Borussia Dortmund a 2-0 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt in their first Bundesliga game of the season.
Dortmund, who finished fifth last season, broke the deadlock in the 72nd minute after struggling to find their rhythm against a feisty Frankfurt side who contained their opponents with high pressing.
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Bynoe-Gittens, an England Under-21 international, scored with a superb strike from a tight angle that sailed into the top far corner after he had cut inside the box from the right. Frankfurt came close to a late equaliser but their hopes of salvaging a point were dashed as Bynoe-Gittens scored his second after a quick counter-attack in stoppage time to earn Nuri Sahin, the new Dortmund coach, his first three points at the helm.
“It was a hot day and it was a good opponent. Things weren’t running smoothly for us yet,” the Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Kobel said afterwards.
“We lost a few balls, even though we had a lot of possession overall. It wasn’t a top performance yet, but it was a good first performance. There were a lot of good things we can build on, but also some things we need to work on.”