Champions League Roundup: Club Brugge Hold Barcelona In Six-goal Thriller

Barcelona had to settee for a stock of nan spoils astatine Club Brugge aft a thrilling 3-3 tie but were fortunate nan English referee Anthony Taylor ruled retired Romeo Vermant’s stoppage-time effort for a foul connected nan Barça goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny.

In a thriller astatine Brugge’s Jan Breydel Stadium, nan location broadside opened nan scoring done Nicolò Tresoldi successful nan sixth minute. But Barcelona deed backmost pinch Ferran Torres scoring from adjacent scope 2 minutes later only for Brugge to regainthe lead successful nan 17th infinitesimal done Carlos Forbs aft different speedy counter.

Szczesny made a stunning prevention early successful nan 2nd half to contradict Joaquin Seys’ ferocious changeable from adjacent range. The Barça defender Eric García almost scored successful nan 59th infinitesimal pinch a onslaught from agelong scope that rebounded disconnected nan crossbar but it was nan teen Lamine Yamal who scored a superb individual extremity consecutive aft to level nan lucifer again.

However, it took Club Brugge only 2 minutes to get backmost nan lead, pinch Forbs scoring from different counterattack, beating Barcelona’s precocious protect statement again for nan umpteenth clip earlier chipping a tidy decorativeness information Szczesny into nan net. Barcelona recovered their equaliser successful nan 77th infinitesimal erstwhile Yamal lifted a transverse into nan container and Seys headed nan shot into his ain nett erstwhile trying to clear.

There was much play arsenic Brugge thought they had scored nan victor successful added clip done Vermant, acknowledgment to what looked to person been a monolithic blunder by Szczesny. But nan video adjunct referee video reappraisal ruled retired nan extremity arsenic nan guardant fouled nan keeper successful his effort to retrieve nan ball, helping Barça rescue a point.

Inter maintained their cleanable grounds successful nan Champions League aft Carlos Augusto’s 67th-minute effort saw disconnected Kairat Almaty 2-1 astatine San Siro. Lautaro Martínez put Inter up connected nan changeable of half-time but Ofri Arad produced a astonishment leveller for nan Kazakhstani nine Kairat.

It looked group to extremity Inter’s 100 % grounds successful nan competition, but Augusto’s extremity intends nan Serie A broadside are 3rd successful nan array and level connected 12 points pinch Arsenal and Bayern Munich.

A vintage hat-trick by Victor Osimhen helped Galatasaray grounds a superb 3-0 triumph connected nan roadworthy astatine struggling Ajax.

Elsewhere, Pafos claimed a much-needed and historical first triumph successful nan Champions League pinch a 1-0 triumph complete Villarreal, nan Dutch defender Derrick Luckassen scoring nan only extremity conscionable aft half-time.

Bayer Leverkusen won astatine Benfica by nan aforesaid separator aft Patrik Schick scored successful nan 65th infinitesimal and Lazar Samardzic’s stoppage-time extremity helped Atalanta to a 1-0 distant triumph complete Marseille.