Gavi scored his first goal in Xavi’s old number six shirt as Barcelona moved eight points clear of faltering Real Madrid with an emphatic 3-0 win over Sevilla.
There was a price to pay with Sergio Busquets hobbling off early on with an ankle injury that will almost certainly keep him out of Barcelona’s first leg Europa League meeting with Manchester United.
But there were far more pluses than minuses. Gavi got his first league goal of the season, Raphinha scored his first goal at the Camp Nou, and before those two the goal that broke Sevilla’s resistance was very much a product of the supporting cast and not Xavi’s principal actors.