A leading member of the attacking ranks at La Liga giants Barcelona enjoyed nothing short of a historic first-half in the club’s latest outing.
The player in question? Ferran Torres.
Barcelona are of course currently locked in action, in the season’s final edition of El Clásico.
Nothing short of a pulsating affair has played out to date, with Hansi Flick’s hosts boasting the advantage owing to another explosive comeback.
The aforementioned Ferran Torres was afforded his latest starting berth in the fixture, with Robert Lewandowski not yet considered ready to start following a spell on the sidelines through injury.
And to say that the former Manchester City man went on to justify his inclusion would be something of an understatement.
Over the course of the first-half, Ferran, remarkably, layed on a trio of assists, spearheading Barca’s latest ‘remontada’
And in the process, the 25-year-old secured for himself a piece of recent Spanish football history.
As per statisticians SofaScore, Ferran is the ‘first player to record a hat-trick of assists in an El Clasico over the last ten seasons’.
In addition, today marks the first occasion on which the Spain international has ever recorded more than a solitary assist in a single fixture.
Conor Laird – GSFN
