Yamal inspires Barcelona rally to claim late win at Levante

Barcelona came from two goals down to beat Levante 3-2 and make it successive wins to start their season.

Levante frustrated the champions in the first period and went into the break with a two-goal lead thanks to Iván Romero's strike and José Luis Morales' penalty at the end of the half.

Barça struck twice in three minutes through Pedri and Ferran Torres and they had to wait until the 90th minute for the winner when Lamine Yamal's cross was headed into his own goal by Unai Elgezabal.

Marcus Rashford made his full debut for Barcelona following his loan move from Manchester United but was substituted at half-time.

Levante had already seen a José Morales goal disallowed -- he was a long way offside -- before they took a shock 15th-minute lead.

Jeremy Toljan collected a deep cross out on the right and turned the ball back inside to Romero, who beat his marker before slotting home.

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Torres should have equalised for Barcelona when the ball fell to him in the box, but he crashed his shot against the crossbar.

Moments later Barça were almost caught out at a free-kick, but Adrián de la Fuente headed a decent chance wide. Raphinha planted a header the wrong side of a post as the visitors pressed at the end of the first half.

But in stoppage time, VAR spotted a handball in the Barça area against Alejandro Balde as he blocked a goal-bound effort from Morales. The 38-year-old stepped up to tuck away the spot-kick and double Levante's lead at the end of a half in which Barça had 85% possession.

Rashford and Pedri had linked up well at times, but the England forward did not have the impact he would have wanted.

He and Marc Casadó were replaced at half-time by Dani Olmo and Gavi, and within four minutes Pedri had halved the deficit with a 25-yarder into the top corner.

Three minutes later, Torres calmly placed a volley into the net from Raphinha's cross to haul Barça level.

Hansi Flick sent on Robert Lewandowski and the Poland international felt he should have won a penalty after running into De la Fuente, but nothing was given.

Torres headed straight at Campos and Raphinha fired wide as Barça poured forward in search of a winner.

It came in the first minute of stoppage time when Yamal swung in a dangerous cross which clipped the head of Levante defender Elgezabal for a heartbreaking own goal.

Information from PA was used in this report.