Barcelona stay perfect with a 5-2 win at Real Betis

Lamine Yamal put Barcelona in front after 10 minutes with a strike into the top corner, and the result never really lost that shape. Real Betis did get back into the game at points, but Barcelona still left with a 5-2 away win in La Liga and a perfect record intact. The trip to Paris Saint Germain is next.

Yamal set the tone

Yamal's start to the season is already hard to ignore. He now has 8 goals and 6 assists in 9 appearances, and his night at Betis added another goal and an assist to that total.

Barcelona are also top of the league with 24 points from 8 matches, and this was the kind of away win that keeps a fast start looking sustainable rather than fragile. The balance matters as much as the result. Barcelona's five goals came from five different scorers, which is a decent sign for a side that wants threats from all over the pitch, not just from one teenager.

Rodri scored in the 41st minute, Gabriel Jesus made it 2-0 in the 51st, Abdessamad Ezzalzouli pulled one back for Betis in the 53rd, and then Facundo Bernal was sent off in the 54th minute after a head-to-head with Yamal. Eric Garcia and Dani Olmo completed the scoring later on.

Betis could not ride the momentum

Giovani Lo Celso had a goal disallowed for handball before the game tilted further Barcelona's way. Betis supporters were not impressed, with one reaction captured by Estadio Deportivo: "Hands up, this is a robbery."

That complaint came after a match that already had a chaotic feel. The red card was the turning point, and So Foot summed up the shift: "One minute later, before Facundo Bernal was sent off after a head-to-head with Yamal. Down to ten men, Betis let go."

Barcelona have now won 8 league games from 8, scored 34 and conceded only 7, and the wider point is simple enough. This is a side finding goals from different players while Yamal keeps supplying the big moments, and that combination is taking them to Paris with momentum intact.