Seven goals at Camp Nou

Real Madrid lasted four minutes. Pina scored then, again in the 28th minute and again in the 32nd. Caroline Graham Hansen added a fourth a minute later, and Pina's fourth, just before the interval, made it 5–0. By half-time the only open question was how long Pere Romeu, the Femení's head coach, would keep his forwards on.

He took off Pina and Graham Hansen on the hour and sent on Aitana Bonmatí and Kerolin, which still left time for Ewa Pajor to score from Graham Hansen's pass and for Sydney Schertenleib to hit the seventh two minutes from time. Aïcha Camara, a week after winning the Under-20 World Cup, played all 90 minutes.

The record books will keep the bigger numbers: the widest margin in the history of the fixture, ahead of April's 6–0 in the Champions League quarter-final, and the first time a Barça player has scored four against Madrid. A red rain warning pushed kickoff back two hours, and the club put the crowd at 40,533, a Liga F record. Six league matches in, Barça have scored 28 and conceded two.

Spain beat North Korea on penalties in Łódź after a goalless final. Barça supplied five of the squad: Aïcha Camara, Rosalía Domínguez, Noa Jiménez, Carla Julià and Julia Torres. Rosalía was named player of the tournament, and Julià scored Spain's third penalty in the shootout.

Romeu did not leave the medals in their boxes for long. Aïcha replaced the centre-back Martina Fernández in the 64th minute of the 6–0 win at AS Roma on Wednesday, Rosalía and Julià came on in the 76th with Barça four goals up. On Sunday Aïcha started the Clásico and finished it. Rosalía and Julià got the last 11 minutes; Noa Jiménez and Julia Torres were not in the squad.

A 7–0 win is the gentlest possible introduction to a Clásico. Aïcha never had to defend a one-goal lead with Madrid pressing, so the evidence of how she copes with that match is still to come. Sunday did show that Romeu sees no reason to wait; a week earlier he started a 15-year-old at Logroño.

Raphinha scored a penalty for Brazil in Brisbane and did not come out for the second half. Brazil's federation sent him home as a precaution with oedema in his right thigh. EFE, citing club sources, reported that Barça's own tests ruled out an injury. The club has not published a medical statement. In Raphinha's case a sore thigh comes with history: thigh injuries cost him 26 matches last season, and he returns as La Liga's top scorer with 12 goals.

Lamine Yamal spent the break doing what he does for Barça, only in red. He scored at Wembley, twice against Croatia and once against Czechia on Saturday, when Luis de la Fuente, Spain's head coach, took him off at half-time. Spain still have Croatia away in Split on Tuesday, four days before Getafe.

The rest of the list is thinner than Flick would like. Andreas Christensen has no return date from a thigh strain, Eric García left the Spain squad with a knee problem, and Frenkie de Jong is still working back from the knee ligament injury the club announced in July. Gavi trained through the break in Barcelona. Anthony Gordon scored and set up another in England's 7–0 win over Croatia, where his Barça teammate Dominik Livaković picked the ball out of his net seven times. On Sunday night João Cancelo equalised for Portugal against Norway, and Portugal won 2–1 after finishing with ten men.

Getafe, coached by José Bordalás, have had less of the ball than their opponents in every league match this season and have shown no sign of minding. They play long, foul often and have already had three players sent off. Six of their seven matches have been decided by a goal or fewer.

The history favours Barça: they have not lost a league match to Getafe since October 2020, a run of 11 meetings, and Getafe have not scored on their last four league visits to Barcelona. A win would equal the club's best league start, eight wins from eight, set in 2013/14 under Gerardo 'Tata' Martino, then the head coach, and make it 23 home league wins in a row.

More than half Barça's squad spent the break with national teams, and the last of them play on Tuesday night, in Split and at Wembley. That leaves Flick the end of the week, not the whole of it, to prepare with a full squad. Getafe slow matches down with restarts and set pieces. Barça have scored early in most of their league matches this season, which has spared them this kind of afternoon. If they do not score early on Saturday, they will spend a long evening waiting for Getafe's free kicks to be taken.

UEFA appointed ethics and disciplinary inspectors to look into the Negreira payments in March 2023, and their investigation is still open. On 1 October UEFA said it had received a large set of documents from Real Madrid, which the inspectors would assess. Barça's statement the same day said UEFA had opened no new proceedings and made no new requests of the club, and that the UEFA case depends on the outcome of the criminal case in Spain.

That criminal case is still formally under investigation in a Barcelona court. The investigating judge, Alejandra Gil, refused in September to extend the investigation by six months, but it only closes when she issues the order that sends the case towards trial, and she has not issued it. Those under investigation include the club as a legal entity, the former presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, two former executives, and Negreira and his son, for offences including sporting corruption, unfair administration and falsifying commercial documents. Barça paid more than €7m between 2001 and 2018 to companies linked to José María Enríquez Negreira, a former vice-president of Spain's referees' committee.

When Joan Laporta, the club president, has spoken about the case, he has mostly questioned Real Madrid's motives, in an April interview. That plays well in the stands, but it does not give members an account of what the club's lawyers expect from the investigation, what a case against the club as an entity could lead to, or how UEFA's file would follow.