Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Barcelona v Real Betis as the Liga season gets underway…

FULL-TIME! Barcelona record a comprehensive victory in the first game of the season. Luis Suarez scored a hat-trick, Lionel Messi grabbed a double and Arda Turan was also on the score-sheet. Thanks for tuning in.

Two minutes of added time to play at the end of a crazy match.

Gus Poyet looks on from the sidelines. He seems shell-shocked and he will be delighted to hear the final whistle.

Adan makes two good stops to deny Barca a seventh. First he denies Digme and then Rakitic.

What an amazing game we've had. Bravo, and (Man City boss Pep Guardiola!) will be disappointed he has conceded a second.

GOAL! Barcelona 6-2 Real Betis - The visitors have one back and it's Castro once again. It's another well-taken goal, the Betis forward smashes a first-time effort past Bravo and high into the net.

GOAL! Barcelona 6-1 Real Betis - Simply unstoppable! Suarez curls the ball around the wall and into the top corner for his hat-trick. He celebrates with Messi before telling him, 'See what I can do when you allow me to take the free-kick?'

Sanabria fouls Suarez and Barcelona have an opportunity from around 20 yards out now...

The match is being played at a much slower tempo now. Barcelona have taken their foot off the gas for the past 10 minutes or so.

Betis' goalscorer picks up a yellow card, his team's third of the evening.

Always trying to out do each other, Leo and Cristiano...

Digme makes his first La Liga appearance as he replaces Alba who has been struggling for fitness recently.

Munir hasn't made a bad first impression - he shows good skill to go by his marker before teeing up Messi whose shot is straight at the goalkeeper.

The Barcelona graduate had an extremely impressive pre-season and he'll be disappointed not to have started today's match. He has a point to prove to his manager.

Luis Enrique makes his first change of the match with Munir replacing Denis Suarez for the final 20 minutes.

The Betis players are becoming more and more frustrated and they must be careful not to go down to 10 men. Things have been difficult enough with 11...

Fantastic defending from Umtiti who wriggles the ball off Ceballos before strolling out of his back-line but he's then chopped down by the frustrated Betis player who receives a booking for his efforts.

WATCH: Messi scores his side's second of the night. Seems a long time ago now.

Messi, looking for his hat-trick, steps up and takes the free-kick... but sent well over the crossbar. Really poor by his standards.

Betis are clearly getting fed up of Messi's brilliance - Cabrera takes him out on the edge of the penalty area but somehow escapes a yellow card.