Yamal's brace keeps Barça perfect

Five games in, and Barcelona have not dropped a single point. According to ESPN FC, the 4-2 win at Levante was built on another Yamal special, the 19-year-old scoring twice to push his side's goal difference to plus-17 through five matches, a number that says as much about the attack as the two goals Levante managed to put past them.

That's the story with this Barcelona team right now: they will outscore you, but they might let you back into the game while doing it. Four goals on the road is the kind of scoreline that gets shared on repeat. Conceding two of them, away at a side not fighting for the title, is the kind of scoreline that gets filed away by whoever plays them next.

Yamal, again

Barcelona sit top of La Liga with 15 points from five played, all five of them wins, and Yamal is a growing part of the reason why. At 19, he's already the player Flick's attack runs through, and a brace at the Ciutat de Valencia barely raises an eyebrow anymore given how often he's produced this season.

Flick has built the Barça attack so that a Yamal double counts as business as usual rather than a shock, and Sunday's win did nothing to change that pattern.

Depth up front, questions at the back

Barcelona's attack is stacked enough that four goals away from home reads as normal service rather than an outlier. The two goals conceded at Levante won't worry anyone while the results keep coming in this fashion. But a title race stretched across a full season tends to find out sides who win 4-2 more often than they win 2-0, and Flick will know that better than most watching from the touchline.

What's next

Three points clear with a maximum haul from five games is about as strong a start as La Liga allows. The question now isn't whether Barcelona can score enough to win the league. It's whether they can stop conceding enough to lose one.