Bloodied Barcelona star left with brutal injuries after being kicked in face

A battle-scarred Pau Cubarsi was near with horrific cuts crossed his look aft helium was accidentally kicked successful the caput during Barcelona’s Champions League triumph implicit Red Star Belgrade.

The Catalan giants cruised to a 5-2 triumph successful Serbia connected Wednesday nighttime but determination was interest for their 17-year-old centre-half erstwhile helium was forced successful the second-half.

Cubarsi bravely went to caput the shot wide but was caught by the footwear of Uros Spajic. His Barcelona teammates spotted humor pouring arsenic a effect of the situation with the club’s aesculapian unit rapidly coming to his aid.

The teen was replaced by Sergi Dominguez and retreated to the dressing rooms wherever helium was fixed 10 stitches, Mundo Deportivo report.

Despite the warfare wounds, the Spaniard appeared successful bully spirits aft the crippled with his Barcelona teammate Gavi sharing a video showing the youngster smiling and flashing a thumbs up, captioned ‘my warrior’.

The abbreviated clip shows the brutal grade of the injuries but reports successful Spain assertion determination is nary large concern, believing helium could adjacent beryllium disposable to play against Real Sociedad connected Sunday.  

Barcelona besides shared a representation of their young defender with the message: ‘Everything for Barca.’

Cubarsi is considered 1 of the champion young talents successful satellite football, holding down a first-team relation astatine 1 of the biggest clubs successful the satellite contempt his tender years.

Having made his elder debut astatine conscionable 16, helium has further cemented his spot successful the starting XI this season.

Barcelona took the pb connected the nighttime done defender Inigo Martinez aft 13 minutes but the hosts levelled up done Silas conscionable earlier the fractional hr mark.

Robert Lewandowski scored either broadside of half-time to springiness the visitors a comfy pb with Raphinha continuing his fantastic signifier with different extremity connected 55 minutes.

Fermin Lopez rounded disconnected the Barcelona scoring with Milson adding different for the hosts precocious on.

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