Competitive debuts for Lewandowski, Raphinha, Christensen and Kessie

Of the five new additions to the FC Barcelona squad, four got to play in Saturday's Liga opener against Rayo Vallecano. Robert Lewandowski, Andreas Christensen and Raphinha were all in the starting line-up, and Franck Kessie replaced Pedri for the last twenty minutes or so. And they were all very much in the heat of the action, but sadly could not celebrate their big night with a win.

Raphinha was one of the standout players in the first half, giving Dimitrievski plenty to think about between the Rayo sticks, but the Brazilian will have to wait for his first competitive goal for the team. He was on the field for an hour before Ansu Fati took his place for the last half hour.

So will Lewandowski. The Pole found the net with a neat finish in the first half, but it was flagged for offside, and had an especially decent chance go narrowly wide in the second.

Christensen came off at the same time as Raphinha, having teamed up with Eric Garcia in the middle of defence, with Ronald Araujo moved to full back.

Kessie certainly made his presence felt in his shorter time on pitch, and he too had a goal disallowed for offside, one that was brilliantly set up by Ansu Fati.