Only five minutes had passed between Barcelona and Osasuna when Ferran Torres sat down on the grass due to a muscle problem. The Valencian striker made gestures of muscle breakdown to the bench, who immediately sent Fermín to warm up.
Foios’s end was touching the back of his right thigh, in the hamstring area. The change was mandatory. And Ferran Torres collapsed.
Ferran could not hold back his tears as he left the field of play. He covered his face with his shirt to try to hide his disappointment. He was crying because he was aware that he will almost certainly miss the first leg of the Champions League round of 16. There are only three weeks left until the duel against Napoli in Italy.
The striker sees his good start to the year cut short on a personal level. This season Ferran is the second top scorer of the Blaugrana squad, with 11 goals, only behind Lewandowski. Five of those targets have arrived in January.
At the age of 23, the winger had turned his situation around at Barcelona, ??where he became transferable, and Xavi had set him as an example for his mentality and his desire to succeed as a Blaugrana. Ferran had started in 18 of the 32 games he has played.
It is the third loss in a week for Barcelona: in San Mamés in the Cup, Balde, who has already undergone surgery in Finland, fell, on Tuesday João Félix suffered a sprained ankle and this Wednesday Ferran Torres retired.
