On-loan Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira had an eventful recreation in Fiorentina’s 1-1 draw in opposition to Inter Milan on Saturday, netting his facet’s solely aim and dropping his entrance tooth.
The Uruguayan had opened the scoring for his staff at San Siro however later acquired a knock to the face, returning to the pitch with a giant ball of cotton wool in his mouth.
Though the incident initially appeared innocuous, it rapidly turned obvious that Torreira had misplaced his entrance tooth – although he performed on regardless.
The 26-year-old appeared to yank it out himself and ran over to the touchline handy his tooth over to the kitman earlier than taking one other cotton swab to stay in his mouth.
Regardless of the hit he took to his face – and different accidents he incurred, together with his fingers tapped up – Torreira stayed on the pitch and gave a superb efficiency.
After the match, whereas ready for anti-doping, Torreira uploaded an image of his toothless smile to social media with the caption referencing that Fiorentina had gained some extent, however he’d misplaced a tooth.
Extremely, regardless of being recognized for his defensive expertise, Torreira is presently the joint-topscorer at Fiorentina now Dusan Vlahovic has left for Juventus.
His newest strike in opposition to Inter was an actual poacher’s effort, drifting into the field to fireplace Nicolas Gonzalez’s pull-back into the roof of the web.
Torreira has bagged 4 targets this season, together with in back-to-back video games for the primary time in his profession after additionally netting the winner in Fiorentina’s 1-0 victory over Bologna final weekend.
His performances have now reached the degrees he was producing at Sampdoria previous to his slightly disappointing transfer to Arsenal and the Serie A facet look more and more more likely to flip his mortgage right into a everlasting deal.
Fiorentina can purchase Torreira anytime earlier than his mortgage expires for a payment of round £12.5million and are already rumoured to have held talks with Arsenal – although that payment represents a giant loss on what the Gunners paid.
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