Huesca registers historic win

Gallar powers the side to a 2-1 victory over Eibar in its maiden La Liga appearance

Full of beans: Gareth Bale scored one goal and created another in his team’s 2-0 win over Getafe.

La Liga debutant Huesca announced its arrival in the Spanish top flight in style.

Powered by two impressive strikes from midfielder Alex Gallar, the promoted side grabbed a 2-1 win away to Eibar on Sunday in its first game of the season.

Gallar danced his way past three defenders before sticking the ball through the legs of Eibar goalkeeper Marko Dmitrovic to score Huesca’s first ever goal in La Liga in the fifth minute of a match between the two smallest clubs in the league.

Gallar followed that spectacular goal by unintentionally hitting his second from a long-range free kick in the 40th minute as his attempted cross went beyond its intended target and flew straight into the net, catching Dmitrovic by surprise.

Real Madrid got its La Liga campaign off to a winning start with a 2-0 victory over Getafe on Sunday.

Inter stunned

In Serie A, a late Edin Dzeko stunner got AS Roma off the mark in its campaign at Torino but Inter Milan made the worst possible start with a 1-0 loss at Sassuolo.

The results:

La Liga: Eibar 1 (Escalante 69) lost to SD Huesca 2 (Gallar 5 & 40); Rayo Vallecano 1 (Embarba 85-pen) lost to Sevilla 4 (Vazquez 15, Silva 31, 45+1 & 79); Real Madrid 2 (Carvajal 20, Bale 51) bt Getafe 0.

Serie A: Torino 0 lost to AS Roma 1 (Dzeko 89); Bolonia 0 lost to SPAL 1 (Kurtic 71); Empoli 2 (Krunic 14, Caputo 51) bt Cagliari 0.

Parma 2 (Inglese 43, Antonio Barilla 59) drew with Udinese 2 (De Paul 65-pen, Fofana 69); Sassuolo 1 (Berardi 27-pen) bt Inter Milan 0.

Premier League: Brighton 3 (Murray 25, Duffy 27, Gross 44-pen) bt Manchester United 2 (Lukaku 34, Pogba 90-pen).