Barcelona 6-1 Alavés: Raphinha and Yamal score twice in a rout
Barcelona led 4-0 at the break and cruised to a six-goal win at Camp Nou, with Alavés only getting one back late.
Barcelona beat Alavés 6-1 at Camp Nou on Saturday in LaLiga, with Raphinha and Lamine Yamal each scoring twice in a one-sided match.
How the goals came
The scorers are consistent across beIN SPORTS and VAVEL. Raphinha opened the scoring inside the first eight minutes. Fermín López doubled the lead in the 23rd minute, and Raphinha added a third shortly before the break. beIN describes the first goal as a tap-in following a run from López, and both outlets credit López with the pass for the third.
Yamal then made it four right at the interval. VAVEL logs the goal in first-half stoppage time, which fits with its report that Barcelona led 4-0 at halftime; beIN timestamps it at 46 minutes, so which side of the break it fell on is a point on which the sources differ. Yamal added a fifth in the 63rd or 64th minute, a goal beIN says was first ruled out for offside and then given after a VAR review.
Anthony Gordon made it six around the 80th minute, according to both outlets. Mariano Díaz pulled one back for Alavés in the 84th minute, which beIN says came after a Barcelona defensive mistake.
One-sided from the start
VAVEL counted 29 dangerous attacks for Barcelona to Alavés's eight, and identified an Abderrahmane Rebbach shot over the bar as the visitors' main early chance. Those are live-blog numbers and unofficial, but the scoreline says the same thing: Barcelona were ahead inside eight minutes and never looked troubled.
What it means
ESPN's match page lists Barcelona on 27 points from ten league games, with nine wins and one defeat, and Alavés seventh on 12 points, with three wins, three draws and four defeats. VAVEL adds that Alavés had gone six league games without a win. The sources disagree on whether Barcelona were first or second in the table before this match, and none gave an updated table afterwards, so Torch is not stating where the result leaves them.
What can be said is that Barcelona's attack did the work, with goals from four different players' worth of build-up spread across both halves, and that Alavés conceded six at a ground where they were never really in the contest.
No post-match quotes from either coach were available in the sources Torch could read, so none are used here.