Levante celebrate the 5-4 victory against Barcelona

Levante 5-4 Barcelona: Incredible end to unbeaten LaLiga season for champions

Football

Sun May 13, 2018 · 8y ago

Barcelona's hopes of an unbeaten LaLiga campaign were ended in their penultimate game as they lost 5-4 at Levante.

Sky Bet offered pre-match odds of 250/1 for Levante to win 5-4 and 6/1 was the price for the hosts to claim victory by any scoreline.

Levante could be backed at 150/1 to score five or more goals.

Earlier on Sunday, Tottenham beat Leicester 5-4 in Premier League at pre-match odds of 200/1 and the 5-5 draw between Hibernian and Rangers in the Scottish Premiership could be backed at 250/1.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Hibs 5-5 Rangers: 250/1
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Spurs 5-4 Leicester: 200/1
🇪🇸 Levante 5-4 Barca: 250/1

🤑 Treble odds: 12,663,200/1

Obviously nobody backed it but there were SEVEN winning #RequestABets of 100/1 or more in the Barca game 👇https://t.co/7uZlTSVQAU
— Sporting Life Football (@SportingLifeFC) May 13, 2018

Champions Barca had gone 36 games unbeaten but trailed 5-1 after 56 minutes and their dramatic fightback came up short.

Emmanuel Boateng's hat-trick and Enis Bardhi's brace put lowly Levante in charge, and despite Philippe Coutinho completing a treble of his own and Luis Suarez scoring a penalty, Barca's bid for history came up short.

A Coutinho hat-trick was available at 80/1 earlier in the week with Sky Bet and 50/1 before kick-off.

The price for a Boateng treble was cut from 250/1 to 150/1 at kick-off.

Fifth-bottom Levante had won their last four matches but were not meant to be a threat as Barca aimed to become the first team to remain unbeaten in a 38-game LaLiga season.

😲 Barcelona's hopes of being the #LaLiga Invincibles are over!

😲 They lost their penultimate game of the season 5-4 at Levante!#LevanteBarca pic.twitter.com/tGA627LkrT
— Sporting Life Football (@SportingLifeFC) May 13, 2018

But the hosts took the lead through Boateng after nine minutes and the Ghanaian rounded Marc-Andre ter Stegen to add a second in the 31st minute.

Coutinho pulled one back seven minutes before the break with a deflected effort from the edge of the area, but Levante started the second half in style.

Bardhi found the top corner just 33 seconds after the break and Boateng completed his treble three minutes later after being played in by Antonio Luna.

Bardhi then added his second to make it 5-1, curling into the far-left corner from Roger's pass.

Coutinho reduced the deficit three minutes later from close range and completed his first Barca treble with 26 minutes left with another deflected effort from range.

Suarez converted from the spot in the 71st minute after Sergio Busquets was fouled from a corner to make it 5-4, but Ernesto Valverde's side could not find a late leveller and keep their run going.

Sky Bet reported plenty of huge winning RequestABets...