Barcelona Outguns Betis in a Wild Eight-Goal Thriller
What a match it turned out to be in La Cartuja. If someone had said before kickoff that we’d get eight goals, two hat-tricks in play, a penalty controversy, and an atmosphere boiling over every few minutes, it would’ve sounded exaggerated. But that’s exactly what unfolded as Barcelona beat Betis 5–3 in a chaotic, breathless night of football.
The game actually started with Betis catching everyone off guard. Only five minutes in, Antony pushed the stadium into a roar by finishing a scrambled move created by Abde and Fornals. That early strike made it look like Betis were ready to take control—except Barcelona responded almost instantly. Ferran Torres needed only ten minutes to flip the script. First, he buried a clever run at the near post, and seconds later he produced an acrobatic finish after a perfect cross from Koundé. Just like that, Barcelona were ahead, and Ferran had already signaled that this would be his night.
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From there, Barça settled into a rhythm. Pedri started dictating the tempo, finding pockets of space and feeding runners. Around the half-hour mark, he slipped an ideal pass to Roony Bardghji, who calmly scored his first goal for the club. Betis, stunned by the turnaround, tried to push forward, but gaps were appearing everywhere. Before the break, Ferran completed his hat-trick with a confident strike from distance—helped by a deflection—and Barcelona walked into halftime leading 4–1.
The second half didn’t calm down. Lamine Yamal, playing in a kind of free mediapunta role, kept drifting into dangerous areas. One of his runs resulted in a handball that the referee judged punishable after VAR review. The decision angered the Betis players and the entire stadium, but Lamine converted the penalty with cold composure to make it 5–1. That was the breaking point for the home fans, and even Pellegrini was visibly baffled in the post-match comments, insisting that the penalty “was invented.”
But Betis didn’t completely fold. Llorente pulled one back after a well-worked corner, and just before stoppage time, Cucho Hernández confidently scored a penalty to bring the score to 5–3. For a brief moment, the stadium believed in a miracle finish, though Barcelona ultimately controlled the final seconds and closed out the win.
The match leaves Barcelona sitting comfortably on top of the table, four points ahead of Real Madrid, while Betis hold onto fifth place but feel the pressure from behind. Despite the loss, the night showed spirit from Betis—but it belonged to Ferran Torres, whose ruthless finishing turned the game upside down. It was one of those nights where every attack felt like it might end in a goal, and nobody inside La Cartuja will forget it anytime soon.
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