Ferran Torres: goal, assist and starter

Three games since landing in the FC Barcelona and three ownerships has given him Xavi Hernandez. His response, a great goal, ultimately sterile in Bilbao to reach the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, and decisive assistance to Frenkie de Jong before him Alaves to secure three gold points for the obligatory goal of sealing the ticket for the next edition of the Champions League.

Despite the logical burden of three months of inactivity due to a fracture in his left foot, Ferran Torres He is already demonstrating on the pitch part of the quality that led him to be the number one goal of Xavi in the winter market.

His insistence on tying up the versatile Valencian striker, only 21 years old, has been transferred to the field of play making him play almost everything. And it’s not all because in the ‘semi’ of the Spain Supercup he only lasted 45 minutes after those three months off and a week out of the group dynamics due to an inopportune positive from Covid. However, he left the starting line against Real Madrid as far right with Ousmane Dembele on the other side and Luke de Jong in the middle. In San Mamés, before the sanction of the Dutchman, he started from ‘9’ and then moved to the right wing when he entered Ansu Fati.

Xavi kept him in Vitoria despite the wear and tear of the cupbearer and gave Frenkie a 0-1

In mendizorroza, again with Luke in liza, started on the right to move to the left after 20 minutes and exchange with Abde. After replacing this, he returned to the right. And there, despite participating little due to the team’s lack of fluidity (he was only able to give three passes to Pedri and this one, only two to him) and also due to the weight of the effort made three days before in Bilbao with 120 minutes of play, he appeared at the right moment breaking the local defense and taking advantage of the sending of Alba to serve a subtle assistance to Frenkie That ended the agony.

That versatility and instinct to always be with the goal between eyebrows has led him to act already in the three positions of a forward in which he will be fixed wherever he is. And more after the serious injury of Ansu Fati and the punishment to Ousmane Dembele of unforeseeable consequences.

Ferran will now have two more weeks to continue internalizing the ideology of Xavi with a decisive month of February for the fate of the season and rivals as demanding as Atletico Madrid, Spanish, Valencia Y Athletic in the League plus the knockout round of the Europa League against him Naples, second in the A league.

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