FRANKFURT: Mainz ignited their Bundesliga season with a 5-0 win over Hamburg while Augsburg climbed to the top of the table after a 4-1 ​win at Eintracht Frankfurt.

Mainz had lost 4-0 at Hamburg last season ‌but, this time, were in complete control from the start and took the lead on 19 minutes as Sheraldo Becker was played in on goal by Kaishu Sano and picked out the ​bottom corner.

Becker then turned provider as his low cross was converted at the ​back post by Phillipp Mwene for a 2-0 halftime lead.

Becker was again ⁠involved with the next goal as he set up Phillip Tietz to bundle the ​ball home. Tietz then added a fourth as he beat goalkeeper Heuer Fernandes, before ex-Hamburg player ​Ransford-Yeboah Koenigsdoerffer punished his former employers with a fifth.

Hamburg sit bottom of the Bundesliga table having lost their opening two matches of the season and have yet to find the back of the net, ​while Mainz are in fifth place with four points from two games.

Augsburg have a full haul of six points following their excellent win at Frankfurt, where they had to come from behind having trailed 1-0 at halftime.

Jonathan Burkardt headed the home side in ​front inside six minutes ​from Younes Ebnoutalib’s lofted ⁠pass into the box as Frankfurt dominated the chances and might have been out of sight by the break.

But it was a ​totally different affair in the second period as Arijon Ibrahimovic headed ​in at ⁠the back post on debut inside the first minute of the re-start.

Within a minute of that goal, Augsburg were 2-1 ahead as the ball fell to Robin Fellhauer in the ⁠box ​and he converted to turn the game on its ​head.

The visitors made it 3-1 when Alexis Claude-Maurice fired in from the edge of the box and Fabian Rieder ​added a late fourth from a free-kick to complete a comprehensive win.

In Spain . . .

Fermin Lopez scored one goal and created two others as LaLiga champions Barcelona eased to a 5-0 victory over hosts Valencia to ​maintain their 100 percent start to the new season.

Lamine Yamal scored twice, while Raphinha and Pedri were also ‌on target for the visitors as they controlled the contest from the start and lead the LaLiga table with 12 points from four games, two more than second-placed Alaves, who won 5-2 at home to Osasuna.

Valencia are rooted to the bottom of the table with ​a single point from their four games and never looked like getting anything from this encounter.

“We played ​a great game, almost perfect,” Barca coach Hansi Flick said. “We had control, we dominated. ⁠That’s what I want from the team – control the game, create spaces and, if it’s possible to score.”

Barca ​took the lead inside six minutes when Fermin’s pass into the box was latched onto by Yamal, who lifted ​his shot over home goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski from a tight angle.

Fermin then drilled in a second from 18 yards on 22 minutes after being teed up by Anthony Gordon, before he turned provider again.

He got in behind the Valencia defence from a Yamal ​pass and his ball across the six-yard box was tapped in by Raphinha at the back post on 50 ​minutes.

Rodri struck the crossbar with a header as Barca created chances at will and it was no surprise when Pedri slotted in a fourth on 79 minutes.

There was time for one more as Yamal swept home his second from close range as the visitors took ​their tally of goals in ​LaLiga this season to ⁠17 in four games.

Marcos Fernandez scored a 98th-minute equaliser for Espanyol as they drew 1-1 at home with 10-man Sevilla.

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