Brugge led three times against Barcelona and scored a fourth, but eventually shared the points.
Spanish giants Barcelona needed to come from behind three times Get a 3-3 tie At Club Brugge in the Champions League, teenage winger Lamine Yamal was at his best for Hansi Flick’s side to help them earn points in a thrilling encounter in Belgium.
Brugge winger Carlos Forbes struck twice and set up one for Niccolò Tresoldi as the hosts tore the Barca defense to pieces on Wednesday.
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Own goals from Ferran Torres, Yamal and Christos Tzolis saved Barcelona from a humiliating defeat, even though many of their players were injured.
Barcelona have been in shaky form in recent weeks, including a Clasico defeat to rivals Real Madrid in La Liga.
The hosts took an early lead at the Jan Bredel Stadium through Tresoldi, who was set up by an electric Forbes.
With Forbes running behind Barcelona’s high defensive line, Brugge set an early blueprint for how they could consistently hurt the Catalans.
Flick’s side quickly hit back through Torres, who finished smartly after being played in by Fermin Lopez.
Midfielder Lopez hit the woodwork before Forbes scored Brugge’s second goal in a relentless battle between two sides determined to attack.
The Portuguese winger played a one-two with Tzolis and once again found his way behind the Barca defence, beating Wojciech Szczesny.
Barca defender Jules Conde fired a shot against the bar at the other end as last year’s semi-finalists demanded a leveller.
Yamal, once again his team’s key player after some flat recent displays, created a good chance for Torres to score before the break, but the striker pushed the ball past goalkeeper Nordin Jackers and wide.
Szczesny saved well from Joaquin Cess at the near post as Brugge continued to attack in the second half and showed no intention of trying to protect their lead.
Eric Garcia scored from long range but Barca became the third player to hit the post as his effort hit the crossbar.
Barcelona eventually equalized with a brilliant goal, as Yamal finished brilliantly with Lopez.
Lopez headed the ball back into the teenager’s path and Yamal slotted it past Jackers into the bottom corner.
Forbes wasted a good chance to put his side back in front, but given another chance minutes later, he took it with a stylish finish.
Hans Vanaken played him through on goal and he delicately chipped past Szczesny for his second and Brugge’s third.
Forbes was awarded a penalty when he went down after colliding with Barca’s Alejandro Balde in the box, but it was disallowed on a VAR review as he had indeed collided with the Spaniard.
Jackers made a superb save to keep out Yamal’s effort bound for the top corner, but could do nothing about Barca’s equaliser, which came in similar fashion.
Yamal’s curling effort from the right deflected off Tzolis’ head and tricked the keeper.
Bruges thought they had won it in stoppage time when experienced goalkeeper Szczesny tried to turn into his area but lost the ball after Romeo Vermont fell on him.
Vermont fired the ball into an empty net, but the goal was disallowed after a VAR review ruled the Belgium forward had fouled Reliev Szczesny.
Elsewhere in the Champions League on Wednesday, Erling Haaland scored against his former club to give his Manchester City a 4-1 win over Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday.
Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen scored a second-half hat-trick to seal a comfortable 3-0 win over hapless Ajax.
Meanwhile, Bayer Leverkusen beat Benfica 1-0 after beating champions Paris Saint-Germain 7-2 on matchday two weeks ago.
Runners-up Inter Milan made it four wins in as many games with a 2-1 win against Kairat Almaty. Inter, Arsenal and leaders Bayern Munich are the only teams to have won all their Champions League matches so far this season.
Meanwhile, Newcastle beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0 and Atalanta won 1-0 at Olympique Marseille.