Madrid, Aug 22: Gareth Bale needed just 80 seconds to score his first goal of the football season as Real Madrid began their 2016-17 La Liga campaign with a comfortable and impressive 3-0 win away over Real Sociedad.
The Welsh international on Sunday showed he is becoming the leader of a Real Madrid side without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema as he leapt above the home defence to head Dani Carvajal's cross into the corner of the Real Sociedad net, Xinhua news agency reported.