Barcelona had the lead against Sevilla within seven minutes through Robert Lewandowski, as he poked in a fine header from Inigo Martinez to open the scoring and set Hansi Flick’s team on their way to a thumping 4-1 win.
Sevilla levelled within 60 seconds, however, going up the other end and finding Ruben Vargas at the back post, where he tapped in Saul’s cross.
At half-time, Flick substituted Gavi and introduced Fermin Lopez, who added a second with his first touch, attacking a ball into the back post and heading into the bottom corner.
Shortly after, Djibril Sow appealed for a penalty after going down in the box but Barcelona broke quickly and Raphinha scored a brilliant goal from range, shimmying past a challenge and firing into the bottom corner.
As the hour mark ticked by, Fermin was sent off after an awful lunge on Sow; he was initially shown a yellow card but VAR recommended that it be upgraded.
Eric Garcia, another sub, made it 4-1 in the last minute with a back-post header, placing the cherry on top of the cake icing.
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