Raphinha stole the show with a hat-trick as Barcelona restored their four-point lead at LaLiga's summit after Sunday's 5-2 win over Sevilla.

Having seen second-placed Real Madrid thrash Elche 4-1 on Saturday, Hansi Flick's side responded in emphatic fashion at Camp Nou to keep things under control with 10 league games remaining.

Barca came flying out of the blocks and found their reward when Djibril Sow clumsily felled Joao Cancelo, with Raphinha on hand to coolly dink his ninth-minute penalty down the middle and open the scoring.

A Jose Angel Carmona handball when attempting to tackle Cancelo handed Barca their second spot-kick 12 minutes later, and Raphinha drilled into the bottom-left corner despite Odysseas Vlachodimos diving the right way and getting a hand to the effort.

Dani Olmo put the hosts three goals to the good with a thumping 38th-minute finish after Marc Bernal's deflected pass fell his way, but Sevilla hit back before the break when Oso redirected Juanlu Sanchez's delivery back past Joan Garcia.

However, Raphinha extinguished any hopes of a Sevilla comeback when completing his treble with 51 minutes on the clock after linking up with substitute Fermin Lopez and seeing his shot fortuitously deflect off Nemanja Gudelj, leaving Vlachodimos stranded.

Cancelo finally got in on the act when combining with Raphinha and finishing smartly for his first goal since returning to Barca before Ronald Araujo and Robert Lewandowski passed up further chances late on.

Sevilla managed a late consolation when Sow nodded past Garcia from Oso's cross, though that could not take the gloss off a dominant home performance.

Data Debrief: Penalty perfection for Raphinha

Raphinha became just the sixth Barcelona player to score two penalties in a single LaLiga game this century, following Patrick Kluivert in 2002, Samuel Eto'o in 2005, Lionel Messi on three occasions (twice in 2012 and 2014), Neymar in 2015 and Luis Suarez in 2016.

The Brazilian's treble also took him to 11 league goals for the campaign, too, while he has found the net six times in his last six top-flight appearances against Sevilla.

Raphinha accounted for a massive 1.7 expected goals (xG) of Barca's total 3.36 tally, with Sevilla mustering just 0.83 in response to show the gulf in class between the two sides.