Barcelona vs Racing Santander Review: 28 Goals in 6 Games Is Just Ridiculous

Sports · Soccer
28 goals in 6 games—at this point, people are seriously asking if this team is even fair
September 17, 2026 | About 4 min | Daegu

1. Nine goals in 90 wild minutes
This was La Liga Round 6, played on September 16 local time at Camp Nou.
Barcelona beat Racing Santander 7-2.
It was a game with nine total goals between the two sides.
The match tilted almost immediately, just eight minutes after kickoff.
João Cancelo unleashed a long-range shot that flew in off the underside of the crossbar.
Then Raphinha added a penalty, and Barcelona had already piled up four goals before halftime.
Racing didn’t just sit back and take it, though.
Maguette Gueye scored once in the first half, and Yáser Zábrí found the net in the second.
But Barcelona added three more in between, and that effectively killed the game.
In the second half, a goalkeeper change also became a turning point.
Wojciech Szczęsny, who came on right after the break, was dispossessed while trying to play out from the back.
That mistake led directly to Racing’s second goal.

2. Raphinha’s hat trick, including two penalties
The star of the day was Raphinha.
He got started with a penalty in the 25th minute, then added an open-play goal just before halftime.
He also took Barcelona’s second penalty himself in the second half and completed the hat trick.
Some people will point out that two of the three goals came from the spot.
Still, keeping your nerve twice from 11 meters is never as easy as it looks.
With this hat trick, Raphinha tightened his grip near the top of the La Liga scoring race.
Dani Olmo provided the assist on the second goal.
Olmo slipped the ball through the middle, and Raphinha finished it cleanly.
Depending on the broadcaster, the official timestamps differ by a minute or two.

3. Cancelo’s two screamers had just a 4.7% chance
Personally, the most shocking part of the night was Cancelo’s two goals.
Both were long-range strikes from outside the penalty area.
It’s rare enough to see a defender score one like that in a game, let alone two.
The expected goals numbers make it even clearer.
The combined xG of those two shots was reportedly only around 0.047.
In plain English, that means both shots were the kind that go in less than 5% of the time.
For the full match, Barcelona posted about 6.65 xG, while Racing came in around 1.86.
So the 7-2 scoreline wasn’t just about luck.
That said, Cancelo’s two goals absolutely had some fortune behind them.

4. Lamine Yamal’s strange night: one missed penalty, one goal
Lamine Yamal had a pretty unusual game.
Right before halftime, he stepped up to take a penalty and missed it.
It was probably the one moment in a seven-goal blowout when the 19-year-old looked visibly frustrated.
But in the 79th minute, he bounced back by setting up Gabriel Jesus for a goal.
Then in the 89th minute, he scored one himself and made it four straight league games with a goal.
It was the final goal of the night, finished off from a pass by Karim Adeyemi.
Even after the missed penalty, he still ended the same match with both a goal and an assist.
More than the numbers, that response was what impressed me most.
It was another reminder that he’s still not even 20 years old.

5. Why 28 goals is the number that should scare everyone
With this result, Barcelona moved to 6 wins from 6 league matches and a perfect 18 points.
Barcelona’s 28 goals in 6 games is the stat that really jumps off the page.
That’s 11 more goals than the league’s second-highest scoring team.
They’re averaging more than 4.6 goals per match.
This is the sixth time in the 21st century that Barcelona has opened a league season with six straight wins.
And in four of the previous five cases, that start ended with a title.
Even on the losing side, Racing had a player worth noting.
Zábrí’s goal took him to 6 goals in 6 league matches.
So even in a heavy defeat, his personal scoring pace is still holding up.
It’s too early to talk about the title in mid-September.
But this attack is very clearly operating on a level that feels anything but normal.
That’s exactly why the next round already feels worth waiting for.
Another thing that stood out was how Barcelona never took its foot off the gas, even after the score gap opened up.
The goals in the 79th and 89th minutes were the clearest proof of that.
They didn’t stop at 5-2—they kept pushing until it became 7-2.

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