Raphinha bags hat trick as Barcelona score 7 to set record start

BREAKING: Barcelona thrash Racing Santander 7-2 as Raphinha bags a hat-trick, making it seven straight wins to start the season for the first time in the club's history.

Seven goals, and Barcelona have never started a season like this.

They battered Racing Santander 7-2 tonight, and that makes it seven straight wins to open the campaign, the first time in the club's entire history. Raphinha helped himself to a hat trick, two of them from the spot, and you can watch him tuck one of those penalties away right here. Cool as you like.

The man is thriving as a central striker. Nine goals in his first six LaLiga games, and the last player to do that in this league was Lionel Messi back in 2017. That's the company he's keeping now. Lamine Yamal got on the scoresheet too, because of course he did.

Raphinha's line afterwards was all business, keep improving, keep hungry. When you're outscoring everyone since Messi, the hunger is clearly working. Seven games, seven wins, twenty-plus goals. The rest of Spain has a problem.

This is Dave King, reporting for HIT.