Lamine Yamal, a 17-year veteran who lifted a wounded Barça

Lamine Yamal warned about this before the match, when asked if he understood why anyone might say he's too arrogant. "As long as I win, they can't say anything to me. When I don't win, they can," said a player who has reached his 100th game for Barça at just 17 years old.

Perhaps a draw should also be enough for him. Especially given the way the match unfolded and the fact that, before kickoff, it seemed like he wouldn't be able to make the starting lineup.

Against Inter, an opponent against whom a legend like Leo Messi was left wanting at least one goal, he once again redeemed himself on the pitch. Not only by scoring the goal that paved the way for Barcelona's first comeback, after the Italians had taken a 2-0 lead at Montjuïc. He also, as he has done so many times before, spurred the Montjuïc crowd to push the Blaugrana team toward something that, in the first 21 minutes, seemed like a pipe dream: scoring at least two goals against the team that conceded the fewest goals in the Champions League. Two that, in the end, would have to be three.

"I hope I can score," he said in the press room at the Joan Gamper training ground on Tuesday after it was reported that Inter had been left out of Messi 's goal-scoring prowess. The way he scored the 2-1 seemed clearly unbecoming of a player old enough to be comfortably in the youth team. He ran into the box after taking the ball from Koundé , faced the two players who always tried to become practically his shadows on the pitch, and sent a thunderous shot that, after bouncing off the right post of Yan Sommer 's goal, ended up crashing irrevocably into the back of the net just four minutes after Inter had gone 2-0 up.

The young Barça striker, in fact, was one of the standouts in a Barcelona attack that sought to pounce on their opponent like a wounded beast after finding themselves so far behind on the scoreboard. They sought the opponent's goal seven times against an Inter side that shamelessly opted to hide behind, defend, and even waste time. With that attitude on the field, it didn't take long for the score to equalize 2-2, with Ferran as the scorer.

It did Dumfries little good to bag a brace at 2-3. Raphinha , Ferran 's assist maker, made it 3-3. The worst thing for the Blaugrana, however, beyond a result that leaves everything open for an all-or-nothing return, the same week that Real Madrid will visit Montjuïc for the second Clásico of the season, was the injury to Joules Koundé . The Frenchman, essential for Flick on the right wing of the defense and even capable of running around Sitges the day after a match if he feels he lacked effort, as the manager himself confessed, has a torn hamstring in his right leg that means his presence for the rest of the season is at best up in the air.

Inter, meanwhile, were also hit very shortly after by a significant absence: Lautaro Martínez . The Argentine striker also suffered a muscle problem late in the first half, suggesting he could miss at least next week's return leg at San Siro. And perhaps also a final leg in Italy in which the Nerazzurri are still hoping to take first place from Napoli, who currently lead the table.