Bitter debut for Pablo Torre as a starter

Barça won the league with four games to go. Time to rest for many of the first team players who have played a lot of minutes and opportunities for those who have not played so much.

This is the case of Pablo Torre. The twenty-year-old Cantabrian youngster arrived last summer at Barça from Racing as a bet for the future, but he has hardly counted for Xavi Hernandez throughout the season. No starts in La Liga until yesterday. Six appearances and only 57 minutes played. In addition, three Champions League games and two Copa del Rey games, with one start against Viktoria Plzen, a game in which he scored for the first time, and two more against Intercity and Ceuta.

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Pablo Torre has played little this season, but has done well when he has been on the pitch. Yesterday, with a team without competitive tension that conceded two goals in 22 minutes, something that hasn't happened in La Liga since 2013, when Getafe scored twice in the 10th and 14th minutes, the Cantabrian was one of the best players in the first half.

He moved well in midfield in the square formation set up by the Terrassa coach, with Frenkie de Jong and Eric Garcia at the base and Gavi and Pablo Torre himself as more advanced players. The executor of some set pieces, he also looked to link up and combine with Lewandowski, although without much luck.

The Cantabrian was replaced by Ferran Torres midway through the second half, when his participation had dropped off and Barça were looking for an equaliser that they didn't even come close to. He is likely to get more minutes in the two remaining league games, but his departure from the club this summer is more than certain. Barça's intention is to loan Pablo Torre to a Primera División team to give him minutes. Because of his youth, he must play and earn the right to return to Barça, the club with whom he signed a contract until 30 June 2026.