Barcelona rescue draw at Club Brugge in six-goal Champions League thriller

Brugge had the pb 3 times against Barcelona and had a 4th extremity chalked off, but ended up sharing the points.

Spanish giants Barcelona needed to travel from down 3 times to earn a 3-3 draw astatine Club Brugge successful the Champions League, with teenage winger Lamine Yamal backmost to his champion for Hansi Flick’s broadside to assistance them gain a constituent successful a gripping clash successful Belgium.

Barca’s defence was shredded connected aggregate occasions connected Wednesday by the hosts arsenic Brugge winger Carlos Forbs struck doubly and acceptable 1 up for Nicolo Tresoldi.

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Ferran Torres, Yamal and a Christos Tzolis ain extremity saved Barcelona from what would person been a humiliating defeat, adjacent though they person respective players retired injured.

Barcelona person been successful shaky signifier successful caller weeks, including a Clasico decision by rivals Real Madrid successful La Liga.

The hosts took an aboriginal pb astatine the Jan Breydel Stadium done Tresoldi, who was acceptable up by the electrical Forbs.

With Forbs rampaging successful down Barcelona’s precocious antiaircraft line, Brugge acceptable an aboriginal blueprint for however they could consistently wounded the Catalans.

Flick’s broadside deed backmost rapidly done Torres, who produced a clever decorativeness aft Fermin Lopez played him in.

Midfielder Lopez struck the woodwork earlier Forbs netted Brugge’s 2nd successful a relentless conflict betwixt 2 sides determined to attack.

The Portuguese winger played a one-two with Tzolis to burst into abstraction down Barca’s defence erstwhile much earlier finishing with aplomb past Wojciech Szczesny.

Barca defender Jules Kounde crashed a changeable against the barroom astatine the different extremity arsenic past year’s semifinalists sought a leveller.

Yamal, who was erstwhile again his side’s cardinal subordinate aft immoderate caller level displays, created a good accidental for Torres to people earlier the break, but the striker nudged the shot past goalkeeper Nordin Jackers and wide.

Szczesny saved good from Joaquin Seys astatine the adjacent station arsenic Brugge continued to onslaught successful the 2nd half, showing nary volition of trying to support their lead.

Eric Garcia astir scored from agelong scope but became the 3rd Barca subordinate to deed the framework of the goal, arsenic his effort slapped against the crossbar.

Barcelona yet pulled level with a superb goal, arsenic Yamal combined with Lopez superbly to interruption through.

Lopez backheeled the shot into the teenager’s path, and Yamal flicked it past Jackers and into the bottommost corner.

Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal celebrates with Fermin Lopez aft scoring the equalising 2-2 extremity [Nicolas Tucat/AFP]

Forbs wasted a good accidental to enactment his squad up again, but fixed different accidental minutes later, helium took it with a stylish finish.

Hans Vanaken played him done connected goal, and helium delicately dinked it past Szczesny for his 2nd and Brugge’s third.

Forbs was awarded a punishment erstwhile helium went down aft a collision with Barca’s Alejandro Balde successful the box, but it was cancelled aft a VAR reappraisal showed helium had really bumped into the Spaniard.

Jackers produced a superb prevention to extremity distant a Yamal effort bound for the apical corner, but could bash thing astir Barca’s equaliser, which arrived successful a akin fashion.

Yamal’s curling effort from the close deflected disconnected Tzolis’s caput and bushed the goalkeeper.

Brugges thought they had won it successful stoppage clip erstwhile seasoned goalkeeper Szczesny tried to crook successful his country but mislaid the shot arsenic Romeo Vermant slid successful connected him.

Vermant rolled the shot into the bare net, but the extremity was disallowed aft a VAR reappraisal aft the Belgian guardant was ruled to person fouled the relieved Szczesny.

Elsewhere successful the Champions League connected Wednesday, Erling Haaland scored against his erstwhile nine arsenic his Manchester City cruised to a 4-1 triumph implicit Borussia Dortmund connected Wednesday

Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen scored a second-half hat-trick to guarantee a comfy 3-0 distant triumph implicit hapless Ajax.

Bayer Leverkusen, meanwhile, defeated Benfica 1-0 to bounce backmost from a 7-2 decision to rubric holders Paris Saint-Germain successful the erstwhile matchday 2 weeks ago.

Runners-up Inter Milan made it 4 wins successful arsenic galore games with a 2-1 triumph against Kairat Almty. Inter, Arsenal and leaders Bayern Munich are the lone teams that person won each of their Champions League games truthful acold this season.

Meanwhile, Newcastle defeated Athletic Bilbao 2-0 and Atalanta claimed a constrictive 1-0 triumph astatine Olympique Marseille.