Match Report
Levante comfortably beat Real Betis 5-2 on 29 August 2026. Adrián de la Fuente opened the scoring in the 24th minute for Levante, set up by Jon Olasagasti, to make it 1-0. Bartra levelled it in the 34th minute for Real Betis to make it 1-1. Levante regained the lead through Enzo Bardeli 47 minutes into the game to make it 2-1. Rodrigo Riquelme levelled it 50 minutes into the game for Real Betis, set up by Marc Roca, to make it 2-2. Levante regained the lead through Brugui 56 minutes into the game, set up by Enzo Bardeli, to make it 3-2. Brugui added to the tally 70 minutes into the game for Levante to make it 4-2. Jon Olasagasti added to the tally in the 95th minute for Levante, set up by Karl Etta Eyong, to make it 5-2. Pablo García (69') and Jeremy Toljan (86') were booked. Our current Elo ratings make Real Betis clearly the stronger side, by 165 rating points over Levante, even though it was Levante who won this one. On current ratings our Elo-Poisson model gives Levante only a 23.8% chance in this pairing, the least likely of the three outcomes. On current ratings the model puts Levante at around 1.46 goals in this pairing; they scored 5 here. Real Betis are unbeaten in the latest 5 matches of their recorded form in La Liga 2025/26, La Liga 2026/27 and Champions League 2026/27. Levante won this pairing for the first time in our records, after 2 meetings without a win.