Real Betis 2-5 Barcelona: Yamal's goal and assist fuel the win
AI-written review based on match data · How we make it
Key numbers
- xG 3.05 v 1.02: Barcelona created the better chances
- 31% possession, Betis's lowest of the season
- Yamal: 6 of 8 dribbles won, plus a goal and an assist
Barcelona's xG backed up the five goals
Barcelona won 5-2 in Seville, and the underlying numbers support the scoreline: their xG of 3.05 dwarfed Betis's 1.02. Hansi Flick left Dani Olmo and Raphinha on the bench to start, yet both came on as substitutes and Olmo added the fifth goal. Goals and chance quality pointed in the same direction.
Betis had little ball but efficient shots
Betis managed just 31% possession, the lowest of their season, and six shots, also a season low. Yet their xG per shot of 0.17 was the highest of the campaign, which suggests the few chances they did create were reasonable ones rather than speculative efforts. It was not enough to offset the volume of Barcelona's attacking play.
A red card, then two more goals
Abdessamad Ezzalzouli's goal pulled Betis back to within one, but the lift lasted barely a minute: Facundo Bernal was sent off in the 54th minute. Betis spent roughly the final 36 minutes a player short, and Barcelona scored twice in that spell. A Giovani Lo Celso goal had also been cancelled by VAR in the 45th minute.
Rodri's goal restored Barcelona's lead
After Valentín Gómez's equaliser, Barcelona needed little time to go ahead again. Rodri's goal in the 41st minute, created by Fermín, was worth +0.8 FN xPts to the visitors. Betis's FN xPts fell by −0.6 on the same moment, and that combined movement was the largest of any in the match.
FN MOM
Highest FN Score · our own pick by a published formula, not the official Player of the Match
Lamine Yamal 8.9Dominant
He scored once, assisted once and had four shots in 70 minutes.
Yamal's points came chiefly in attack: four shots, six successful dribbles from eight and eight duels won out of ten. His 10th-minute goal, his eighth in La Liga this season, put Barcelona ahead, and his pass for Gabriel Jesus in the 51st minute made it 3-1 just two minutes before Betis replied.
Game state
0-11-11-21-32-32-42-5
Real Betis ahead 0 min · level 24 min · Barcelona ahead 66 min
- Real Betis: Red card 54' → ~36 min a player down
FN xPts — what each moment was worth
How much each moment changed that team's expected points (win 3, draw 1). A goal's value is credited 70% to the scorer and 30% to the assist. The value next to a team code is what the same moment did to the other side's expected points; the decisive moment is the one with the largest combined change for both teams.
10'
Lamine Yamal
Goal · scorer +0.4 · assist Jules Koundé +0.2 · BET −0.5
+0.6
27'
Valentín Gómez
Goal · scorer +0.4 · assist Pablo Fornals +0.2 · BAR −0.7
+0.6
41'
Rodri
Goal · scorer +0.6 · assist Fermín +0.2 · BET −0.6
+0.8
51'
Gabriel Jesus
Goal · scorer +0.3 · assist Lamine Yamal +0.1 · BET −0.3
+0.4
53'
Abdessamad Ezzalzouli
Goal · scorer +0.2 · assist Giovani Lo Celso +0.1 · BAR −0.4
+0.3
54'
Facundo Bernal
Red card · BAR +0.2
−0.2
62'
Eric García
Goal · scorer +0.2 · assist Pau Cubarsí Paredes +0.1 · BET −0.2
+0.3
81'
Dani Olmo
Goal · assist Pau Cubarsí Paredes · BET 0.0
0.0
Real Betis
Expected (last two seasons) 1.0Own moments +0.7Opponent moments −1.6Time effect −0.1→ League points won 0
Barcelona
Expected (last two seasons) 1.8Own moments +2.1Opponent moments −0.9Time effect 0.0→ League points won 3
Expected points don't add up to a fixed total (a draw is 1 + 1), so an opponent's moment isn't simply the mirror of your loss. "Time effect" is the change as the clock runs down on a lead or a chase, and isn't credited to any player.
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Match stats
Real BetisBarcelona
1.02Expected goals (xG)3.05
Compared with usual
Real Betis
10 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 2 | 2 | |
| Conceded | 5 | 1.3 | |
| xG | 1.02 | 1.7 | |
| xG against | 3.05 | 1.6 | |
| Shots | 6 | 17.9 | low |
| On target | 5 | 6.4 | |
| Shots faced | 18 | 13.8 | |
| xG per shot | 0.17 | 0.09 | high |
| Possession | 31% | 54.1% | low |
| Passes | 324 | 519.9 | low |
| Corners | 2 | 5.1 | |
| Fouls | 10 | 10.6 | |
Barcelona
10 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 5 | 4.3 | |
| Conceded | 2 | 0.9 | |
| xG | 3.05 | 3.7 | |
| xG against | 1.02 | 0.91 | |
| Shots | 18 | 21.9 | |
| On target | 10 | 8.6 | |
| Shots faced | 6 | 6.4 | |
| xG per shot | 0.17 | 0.18 | |
| Possession | 69% | 70.5% | |
| Passes | 751 | 700.8 | |
| Corners | 5 | 7.1 | |
| Fouls | 11 | 9.6 | |
Timeline
- 10'
Goal
Lamine Yamal league goal #8 assist Jules Koundé
- 20'
Yellow
Fermín
- 22'
Yellow
Héctor Bellerín
- 27'
Goal
Valentín Gómez league goal #1 assist Pablo Fornals
- 41'
Goal
Rodri league goal #1 assist Fermín
- 45'
VAR
Giovani Lo Celso
- 45'
Yellow
Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti (coaching staff)
- 45'
Sub
Gerard Martín → Eric García
- 45'
Sub
Dani Ceballos → Nelson Deossa
- 51'
Goal
Gabriel Jesus league goal #3 assist Lamine Yamal
- 53'
Yellow
Facundo Bernal
- 53'
Goal
Abdessamad Ezzalzouli league goal #3 assist Giovani Lo Celso
- 54'
Red
Facundo Bernal
- 55'
Yellow
Lamine Yamal
- 61'
Yellow
Diego Llorente
- 62'
Sub
Fermín → Dani Olmo
- 62'
Sub
Karim Adeyemi → Anthony Gordon
- 62'
Goal
Eric García league goal #1 assist Pau Cubarsí Paredes
- 64'
Sub
Cucho Hernández → Troy Parrott
- 64'
Sub
Giovani Lo Celso → Rodrigo Riquelme
- 70'
Sub
Lamine Yamal → Raphinha
- 70'
Sub
Héctor Bellerín → Ángel Ortiz
- 70'
Sub
Pablo Fornals → Álvaro Fidalgo
- 79'
Sub
Gabriel Jesus → Gavi
- 81'
Goal
Dani Olmo league goal #1 assist Pau Cubarsí Paredes
Category leaders
- Key passesRodri2
- Duels wonLamine Yamal8/10
- DribblesLamine Yamal6/8
- Defensive actionsDiego Llorente6
- ShotsLamine Yamal4 (on target 2)
#Real Betis#Barcelona#La Liga#Lamine Yamal#Rodri#Pau Cubarsí Paredes
This review was written by AI from match data (API-Football). FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.