Barcelona

Barcelona and Sevilla are on opposite spectrums of the La Liga table. Barca lead the league with Xavi's side dominating both from the front and back.

Sevilla were 4th last season, but find themselves quite far from the UCL spots this campaign at 15th place. And their next opponent Sevilla are someone whom they haven't lost to in their last fourteen encounters. Barcelona and Sevilla are on opposite spectrums of the La Liga table.

FC Barcelona went eight points clear of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga after beating Sevilla 3-0 at Camp Nou on Sunday night.

Provided a lovely and clever assist for Alba with an outside of the foot dink, capping his best performance for Barca since joining from AC Milan on a free transfer. Quick feet and a cool pass to Raphinha drew a cheer from the crowd. Came out for the second half with a spring in his step and moved more central as Kounde covered the right, but again ticked Xavi off when squandering another peach of an Alba cross at the back post. Xavi was angry with him when he made little of Gavi opening up the park in midfield and palming it off him down the right flank with half an hour gone. Should have done better when given the reins on a dangerous late first half move and needed to find Gavi sooner. Was a constant threat and the pay off was his goal on 70 minutes, his first in the '6' shirt, when Raphinha found him at the back post. Always looking to connect play and thread through the final ball but was pretty anonymous in the first half. Had a bright early starting controlling the tempo, but started to lose the midfield battle in a good 10 minute spell for Sevilla with around 35 down on the clock. He was the architect of one of Barca's most promising first half moves connecting well with Raphinha, only for Lewandowski to be too slow trying to bring Gavi into action. Came out for the second half despite suffering a nasty tackle and was strong until the end. With a quarter of an hour gone, he was unlucky not to find Lewandowski in the box with a defended cross and another ball of his was threatening from the resulting corner. Had little to nothing to do for most of the game save for being alert on a couple of counter attacks that amounted to nothing, and having to get Barca's play restarted when the ball was passed back to him.

Barcelona extended their LaLiga lead to eight points thanks to second-half goals by Jordi Alba, Gavi and Raphinha that gave them a 3-0 home win against ...

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Barcelona moved to a comfy 8-point lead over Real Madrid on the LaLiga table after thrashing Sevilla on Sunday.

Sevilla manager Jorge Sampaoli on the result: "We held Barca off in the first half but in the second half we needed more. Raphinha completed the scoring himself after good work from [Frenkie de Jong](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/219022/Frenkie-de-Jong) and Alba. [Sergio Busquets](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/121893/Sergio-Busquets) earlier in the game. With [Manchester United](/football/team?id=360) in the Europa League around the corner -- and [Ousmane Dembele](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/229744/Ousmane-Dembélé) already injured -- they could do without losing any more players. Xavi on Barcelona leading Real Madrid by eight points on the table: "It's not definitive, not at all, but we are in a privileged position. [Sevilla](/football/team?id=243) could not stop him for a short period of the game. After a first half in which they failed to break down a [Sevilla](/football/team?id=243) side that sat deep, [Barcelona](/football/team?id=83) opened the floodgates after the break. [Jordi Alba](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/121021/Jordi-Alba) opened the scoring just before the hour mark after good work from [Franck Kessie](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/194711/Franck-Kessié). Sevilla, who started the campaign in the Champions League, looked like what they are: a team just two points clear of the bottom three. He displayed nice footwork throughout the game, helped in defence and attack and produced a Ronaldinho-esque pass to set up Alba's goal. Both impressed against [Sevilla](/football/team?id=243), though, with performances would could signal a turning point in their Barca careers. [Raphinha](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/231050/Raphinha) created the second for [Gavi](http://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/323702/Gavi) and then added the third himself from Alba's cross to complete the scoring and extend Barca's winning streak in all competitions to seven games, their longest since the 2019-20 season.

Barca captain Sergio Busquets had to be replaced eight minutes into the match at Camp Nou with an ankle sprain. In Mallorca, Marco Asensio missed a penalty as ...

"It's eight points. Alba, Gavi and Raphinha scored a goal each in the second half to give Barcelona their fifth straight victory in the league. Barcelona have taken advantage of a stumble from Real Madrid to build their biggest lead so far this season at the top of the Spanish league.

Barcelona appeared to troll Real Madrid with a photo of Xavi, after Carlo Ancelotti's side tasted defeat at the hands of Mallorca.

Xavi’s side are already leading the table by five points and have looked like the much better team in recent months, even getting a dominant win over Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup final. Everything that could have gone wrong for Real Madrid on the day, pretty much did. [1-0 defeat at the hands of Mallorca](https://www.espn.in/football/report/_/gameId/643963), to hand Barcelona the chance to go eight points clear at the top of the table when they take on Sevilla.

Second-half goals from Jordi Alba, Gavi and Raphinha saw Barca beat Sevilla 3-0 at the Camp Nou on Sunday night.

FC Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez has insisted that his team can win all the titles they have left to fight for after they demolished Sevilla 3-0 at Camp ...

We like to be leaders, to take this advantage and [have] the good feelings that the team is giving. This time we created many chances. In the last few games they had played us with a low block it had been difficult for us.