Barcelona 5-1 Betis (Jan 15, 2025) Game Analysis

Barcelona’s teenage ahead Lamine Yamal was in impressed kind, scoring as soon as and making two assists, as they thrashed Actual Betis 5-1 on Wednesday to e book their spot within the Copa del Rey quarter-finals.

Flying excessive after their 5-2 demolition of rivals Actual Madrid within the Spanish Tremendous Cup ultimate on Sunday, Barcelona did not even want their full arsenal to swat apart fellow LaLiga outfit Betis.

Coach Hansi Flick rested a number of starters similar to Robert Lewandowski, Marc Casadó and Alejandro Balde.

They dominated proceedings from the beginning and it took three minutes for them to open the scoring with Gavi slotting in a low strike from Dani Olmo’s help.

Olmo virtually prolonged Barca’s lead with a superb strike from contained in the field that hit the publish within the twentieth minute, earlier than Jules Koundé put them 2-0 up within the twenty seventh, firing house a volley from shut vary after a shocking lobbed move by Yamal.

After efforts from Kounde and Yamal had been dominated out by the VAR for offside, Raphinha scored Barca’s third within the 58th minute, netting from a counter-attack began by Yamal.

Substitute Ferran Torres netted the fourth within the 67th minute with a strike from contained in the field from an Olmo cross and Yamal scored the fifth from a fast counter-attack within the seventy fifth.

The purpose was first dominated out for an offside however the choice was shortly corrected by the VAR.

Brazilian ahead Vitor Roque, who’s on-loan from Barcelona, scored a comfort for Betis from the penalty spot within the 84th minute.