Barcelona equal 58-year-old La Liga record with ninth straight win

Barcelona beat Real Betis 5-2 at the Estadio Benito Villamarin on Saturday, 17 October 2026, ESPN reported. Lamine Yamal opened the scoring in the 10th minute, and Rodri doubled Barcelona's lead in the 41st.

Valentin Gomez and Abde Ezzalzouli scored either side of half-time for Betis, who had Facundo Bernal sent off following a confrontation with Yamal in the 54th minute, ESPN said. Gabriel Jesus, Eric Garcia and Dani Olmo added further goals for Barcelona.

The result gave Barcelona a ninth consecutive league win from the start of the season, ESPN reported, matching a record set by Real Madrid in 1968-69. Barcelona top the table on 27 points with a 9-0-0 record.

The photograph above shows the Estadio Benito Villamarín, Real Betis' home ground where this match was played, not action from the game itself. Credit: Maesi64, "Estadio Benito Villamarín - Sevilla - 01", Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0.

Sources: ESPN.