Raphinha double fires Barcelona to perfect home LaLiga season

AAS Editorial Team

Raphinha double fires Barcelona to perfect home LaLiga season

Barcelona closed out their home schedule the way they opened it—with three points. A 3-1 win over Real Betis gave them a flawless 19 wins from 19 matches at the Nou Camp, making them the first team in a 20-team La Liga campaign to go unbeaten on their own ground all season.

Raphinha provided the finish in Robert Lewandowski's probable farewell at the stadium. The Brazil winger opened the scoring with a free-kick just short of the half-hour mark and doubled the advantage midway through the second half after a defensive error from Héctor Bellerín. Isco converted a penalty heading into the final twenty minutes to briefly halve the deficit, but Joao Cancelo's strike restored calm.

The record did not need much decoration; it already did the talking. Nineteen home wins in a thirty-eight game season is not a fluke or a statistical quirk—it is a statement of dominance that turns the Nou Camp into a venue opponents learned to fear. Barcelona finished thirteen points clear at the top of the table, and their home record was the foundation of that cushion.

Raphinha delivered exactly what the moment required. Lewandowski's probable departure gave the match an undercurrent of finality, and the Brazilian winger responded with the kind of performance that turns a routine victory into a memory. That is how you send a striker off.

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