Ferran Torres does not inflate the balloon in his ‘premiere’

Three months without playing in the elite is a lot. Also in 21-year-old footballers such as Ferran Torres. Xavi did not want to wait and, surely, Barça was crying out for it. But the Valencian showed that a fracture in the right foot is of sufficient weight to require time. His debut at Barça, in record time (negative in COVID, medical discharge, trip to Arabia and ownership), it was not round. Ferran was not the protagonist against Madrid. Cornered on the right wing, the most that was seen of him was to receive a yellow card and make some more fouls in Madrid’s ball exit.

Maybe the key was given Xavi, that He reproached the complex team in the first 25 minutes. And there was Fernando. Although he, deep down, was landing in a team that had not entered the game well, that did not measure Madrid’s transitions well and that, finally, was convicted of individual errors like that of Busquets in the 0-1.

Ferran, in short, he went to rest without being able to finish off the goal (Luuk de Jong took away a possible dangerous header) and with a residual role in the party. He manifests himself as a right winger, but the lime does not hit him. So lying on the band, he does not assert one of his best virtues, the arrival. will have to explore what Xavi wants from him, because Morata’s request invites us to think that the Terrassa coach also sees him there, on the right wing.

The azulgranas are always remembered What do they do his debut in a Clásico. Sometimes, as an extravagant case, like Romerito’s. Pedri entered through Ferran, a very symbolic image, because almost the same day that the Valencian showed up and the Canarian returned to training, they were infected with COVID together. The two made the trip to Arabia together. With a difference. Until the gas lasted, Pedri felt in a familiar ecosystem. Ferran did not get along with Alves. Not with Busquets, to which he drew several unchecks that did not have the necessary coordination. Luis Enrique looked at them from the box, the most interested in having a connection with Gavi and with Busquets himself, because in less than a year there is a World Cup in sight. Ferran puts himself, from today, in Barça connection mode.