There's a crystal clear reason why Celta Vigo finished the second round of matches top of LaLiga , playing beautiful, thrilling football in front of a full, noisy, proud Balaidos stadium. A reason, too, why Monday's thrilling 4-3 defeat at Villarreal -- in which Dani Parejo 's winning goal in the 10th minute of injury time sent the home side top of the table above the visitors after three games -- won't change a single thing. Not the ambition, the bravery, the three-man defence.
Nor the idea that this little seaside club from Spain's north-western fishing territory can actually tilt at winning a trophy and, in the meantime, give all of us glorious, uplifting entertainment. That reason is Marian Mouriño -- a Spaniard educated in Orlando and Miami, veteran of business in Mexico, one of only two female club presidents in LaLiga and something of an eight-month whirlwind at the club she adores and which she's making pretty inspirational. Editor's Picks Madrid's Endrick gets dream Bernabeu goal, whereas Mbappé waits for his 2d Alex Kirkland 10 players who could move before transfer deadline day 4d Mark Ogden Breakout players to watch across Europe's top five leagues 7d Luis Miguel Echegaray On taking over from her 80-year-old father just before the turn of the year, she wasted no time in taking Celta by the scruff of the neck, shaking off the cobwebs and, ruthlessly, scrapping the last two big projects that her idiosyncratic, out-of-touch dad had instituted in the final months .