Lamine Yamal scores stunner as Barcelona beat Real Betis 5-2 in Seville
Lamine Yamal scored a spectacular goal as Barcelona defeated Real Betis 5-2 in La Liga in Seville on 19 October 2026, a match the 19-year-old helped to decide with early and sustained influence. Hansi Flick praised his performance after the game, saying “I told him I was proud of him because he played a fantastic game.”
Yamal, who had produced an “almost rabona” at Galatasaray days earlier, opened the scoring nine minutes into what was billed as a first proper test for La Liga leaders against a top-three opponent. Jorge Valdano had written of the difficulty of explaining Yamal’s actions — “If he keeps doing strange things, we’re not going to be able to explain it,” he wrote — and the teenager responded with another moment of individual invention in Seville.
The move that led to the goal began when Gerard Martín briefly lost his boot; Rodri dropped into defence to restart play and the ball worked its way to Yamal, who unlocked the defence with an outside-of-the-boot pass. Receiving again just inside Betis’s half, Yamal rolled the ball left with his left foot, flicked it with the heel of his right and from the edge of the box struck it into the far top corner.
Players and staff on the touchline reacted visibly: Gabriel Jesus “just held his head in his hands” as the ball passed him, Fermín López chased after Yamal, Karim Adeyemi wagged his fingers, and Flick celebrated with an energetic high five. Yamal ran to the corner, then sat alongside Jules Koundé on the advertising board before standing holding the corner flag and looking about — “will that do?” the report recorded.
The match featured a flurry of goals and incidents before half-time and after: Valentín Gómez headed Betis level, Rodri put Barcelona ahead, and a Gio Lo Celso effort that briefly appeared to make it 2-2 was ruled out for a handball 14 seconds earlier. The sequence continued with Álvaro Valles and Joan García making superb saves within 30 seconds of each other, Gabriel Jesus scoring to restore Barcelona’s lead, and Abdessamad Ezzalzouli reducing the deficit to 3-2 shortly afterwards.
The contest spilled into a confrontation that produced a red card: with Fermín López on the ground and Yamal going over, Facundo Bernal pushed Yamal; Yamal then pushed Bernal back, after which Bernal head-butted him and was sent off. The game resumed with Eric García adding a fourth for Barcelona and Dani Olmo scoring a fifth to complete the victory; Betis’ manager Manuel Pellegrini said the result left him “impotent” while Fran García described feeling “frustrated, angry … and tired”.
Barcelona extended their domestic winning run to nine from nine and have scored 39 league goals and 48 in 11 matches in all competitions, the match list in the report including Real Betis 2-5 Barcelona among recent results. Lamine Yamal’s season totals in the account stand at nine goals and 10 assists; the piece records he had scored after 104 seconds at Wembley, after 70 seconds in Seville, and after 320 seconds in Oviedo, and that on this occasion his goal came after 530 seconds. Flick also said: “For me Lamine is the best in the world. I’m happy about his performance; this is what I love to see. And when you see the first goal, it’s unbelievable.”
The report noted Barcelona face tougher tests next, with Paris Saint-Germain then Real Madrid on the calendar, and added the club “also have an injury crisis at the back,” underlining the upcoming challenge despite their current run.