Ferran Torres is a very sensitive decline in the Spanish team. FC Barcelona striker was in a great moment in shape until he had to stop for an appendicitis that forced him to go through the operating room and miss the last three league days, including that of the Alirón against Espanyol.
As normally with injured players, De la Fuente contacted Ferran Torres to know his state of health and encourage him already thinking about the next season in which the 2026 World Cup is coming in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Ferran could not be summoned by still convalescent and without the medical discharge. Although the operation was satisfactory, Ferran had to rest to recover completely and was not prepared to face some elite training and matches. His decline was purely medical, not as a precaution.
The Valencian was also called to be an important player in the national team again. De la Fuente is very satisfied with the performance he has offered as a center striker and thought of him in this demarcation for the party against France.
The center striker in a better way
Ferran Torres has arrived plethoric, while Morata offers more doubts after passing through the Turkish Galatay, while Samu Omorodion is still more contemplated as a future option than present to jump in the starting eleven.
The striker not only endorsed his status but also his records with the selection. Despite acting more than a ram, Ferran Torres has scored 21 goals in 48 games with the red. He already exceeded the figure of Telmo Zarra and there are two goals to enter The Top 10 of the National Team with Sergio Ramos and Di Stéfano with 23 goals.
Álvaro Morata, upon his arrival at the concentration of Spain / RFEF
The top scorer in history is David Villa with 59. Of the current team only exceeds it Morata, although with 37 goals in 84 meetings.
Ferran Torres has reached his 25 years of football maturity that allows him to understand the game very well anywhere in the offensive zone. His natural position is in the right wing, where he exploded in Valencia, but Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique already placed him from '9' on occasionwhile Hansi Flick has opted for this position almost definitively.
Jump with Flick
From the hand of the German coach he has signed a spectacular season as Barca With 19 goals in 45 games. He has alternated with Robert Lewandowski and, for example, it was The main architect of the conquest of the Copa del Rey with 6 goals of enormous importance. He scored a 'hat-trick' against Valencia, the goal of the classification against Atlético de Madrid and the one that forced the extension against Real Madrid in the final.
Ferran Torres, top scorer of the 2024/25 Cup / EFE
Ferran Torres has also distributed 7 assists, 3 of them in the match that decided the league in Montjuïc against Real Madrid. His good performances have made Robert Lewandowski forget many occasions, who acknowledged that he is set in each training to be a better center striker every day.
Now it will be time to see the nations league from home, Another tournament in which he highlighted in 2021 with a double against Italy in San Siro which allowed the red qualify for the final. Ferran played the decisive game touched by a fissure on one foot against France And he could not avoid a controversial defeat 2-1 with a goal from Mbappé in offside after a slight touch of Eric Garcia.
Without Ferran Torres, De la Fuente can opt for Morata, despite not going through his best moment, or with a false '9'. In this sense, Oyarzabal has always responded in this demarcationwas the author of the goal of the Eurocup in front of England, while Dani Olmo can also adapt, as he has done at FC Barcelona and in some point match with the National Team.
Spain is measured on Thursday against France in Stuttgart in the second semifinal of the UEFA Nations League Four Four. The first semifinal measures the German host against Portugal in Munich on Wednesday, where the final will also be played on Sunday, June 8. The third and fourth place is played on the same day at Stuttgart in the early afternoon.