"Despite Barcelona's attacking trident of Lamine Yamal, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha starting on Sunday evening, none of the team's goals came directly from them. Instead, it was Barcelona's midfield that stepped up on the night and delivered a great show, scoring all three of the team's goals and creating the chances almost independently. Barcelona's opener went to Marc Bernal's name just minutes after the opening whistle as the youngster scored his second goal of the season with good timing of his strike."
"Receiving the ball from Eric Garcia's cross, he lunged forward without straying offside and accurately put the ball past the goalkeeper. Later in the first half, Barcelona captain and midfielder Frenkie de Jong scored his first goal of the campaign, again with a well-timed run. In his case, he got on the end of Joao Cancelo's stunning cross with a precise and vicious run and bundled the ball past Matthew Ryan."
"The third goal came out of nowhere in the 81st minute when Fermin Lopez decided to take matters into his own hands and struck a stunning strike from outside the box with his weaker foot - one that thundered past the goalkeeper and struck the woodwork before going in. It was thus a curious night against Levante with all three goals going to midfielders with limited involvement from the front three. Once again"
Barcelona recovered from two straight defeats with a 3-0 win over Levante at the Spotify Camp Nou. The performance was dominant but not fully convincing, and the result helped reset a grim dressing-room mood. Midfielders Marc Bernal, Frenkie de Jong and Fermin Lopez supplied all three goals. Bernal finished from an Eric Garcia cross, de Jong bundled home from Joao Cancelo's cross, and Lopez struck a long-range effort with his weaker foot in the 81st minute that hit the woodwork before crossing the line. The front three had limited involvement and poor finishing prevented a larger margin.
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