By SCM Sports Writer at the Jan I Thursday, Nov.06, 2025
BREYDELSTADION – Bruges’
Lamine Yamal rescued Barcelona from an utterly humiliating defeat on Wednesday night after the Spanish giants were forced to come back from behind THREE times in a frantic 3-3 Champions League draw against mighty minnows Club Brugge.
The Catalans limped out of the Jan Breydelstadion in Belgium clinging onto a single point after being run ragged by the Belgian side’s electric counter-attacks, led by the brilliant two-goal hero, Carlos Forbs.
Manager Hansi Flick will be sweating this morning after his side’s notoriously high defensive line was torn to shreds by a team that sits well below them in the European pecking order.
Brugge, playing like men possessed in their home fortress, took the lead in just the sixth minute when Nicolo Tresoldi slotted home.
Ferran Torres hit back immediately for Barça, but the Jan Breydelstadion faithful were soon roaring again as Forbs bagged his first on 17 minutes.
The second half was just as mental! Boy wonder Yamal, 18, produced a moment of magic to curl in an equaliser on the hour mark.
But the joy lasted just three minutes before Forbs again burst through a shell-shocked Barcelona backline to restore the lead at 3-2.
The final equaliser came in controversial style with 13 minutes left, as Yamal’s curling effort deflected wickedly off Brugge’s Christos Tzolis for a cruel own goal, levelling the scores for the final time.
The drama didn’t end there, though! The home crowd thought they’d witnessed a famous victory in injury time when substitute Romeo Vermant bundled the ball in, but VAR swooped in like a vulture to chalk off the goal for a supposed foul on the goalkeeper.
A breathless night in BRUGES proved once and for all that while Barcelona still have fire in the belly (and a world-class teenager in Yamal), their fragile defence is in desperate need of a total rebuild. They barely survived a bruising battle deep in Belgium.
