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Sevilla thrashed Barcelona 4-1 connected Sunday (October 5, 2025), ending the champions' unbeaten commencement successful LaLiga and denying them an accidental to instrumentality to the apical of the table.
Sevilla's archetypal league triumph implicit Barcelona since 2015 provisionally lifted them to 4th successful the array with 13 points from 8 matches. Barcelona remained 2nd with 19 points, 2 beneath leaders Real Madrid.
"It's 1 of the happiest days of my life. We deserved to triumph from commencement to finish," said Jose Angel Carmona, who scored Sevilla's 3rd goal.
Barcelona made a muted commencement and had nary shots connected people successful the archetypal fractional an hour, portion Sevilla probed aboriginal on, looking to unleash Alexis Sanchez with agelong balls.
Sevilla took the pb successful the 13th minute, aft Isaac Romero went down portion jostling for the shot with Ronald Araujo adjacent Barcelona's six-yard box, and the referee awarded a punishment to Sevilla aft taking a look astatine the VAR replay.
Sanchez sent erstwhile Arsenal teammate Wojciech Szczesny the incorrect mode to person the spot kick.
Szczesny stopped Sevilla from doubling their pb successful the 27th minute, redeeming Romero's changeable from wrong the box.
Romero, however, doubled Sevilla's pb 10 minutes later, arsenic Ruben Vargas sprinted past Barcelona's precocious antiaircraft enactment to pursuit down a done shot adjacent the box, and crossed to the Spanish guardant who dispatched a first-time finish.
Marcus Rashford reduced the shortage for Barcelona precocious successful added clip earlier the break, hammering Pedri's lobbed walk into the nett from a choky space with his near foot.
