Misfiring Barcelona look right at home in the Europa League - The Warm-Up

FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES Slumming It Ad/> In the 59th minute of last night's game against Napoli, Ferran Torres stepped up to take a penalty. It was a VAR penalty, you know the sort of thing: the handballs that flash past almost unnoticed at full speed but then, stretched and made strange by slow-motion, become serious and penalty-worthy incidents. Europa LeagueCeltic left stunned, Leicester take pressure off and Martial strikes first Sevilla goal11 HOURS AGO Not that Torres cared about the penalty's provenance.

He was too busy scoring the thing. A straight run-up, a shift of balance, a twitch from the keeper… and he rolled it home calmly and with great precision. The finish of a player entirely in control of himself and his processes.

Not the most spectacular way to open his Camp Nou account, but quietly impressive in its own right. That was the good Torres. The other one had one, two, three excellent chances from open play, and sent them all screwing wildly over the bar.

Which is why the player that scored Barcelona's potentially vital equaliser, and got on the end of all Barcelona's best attacking move, ended the game in tears. It's a miserably cruel game, this one. /> He's in a strange position, Torres.

By rights, any 21-year-old moving to Barcelona should be able to spend some time adjusting to the place. Coming on for the senior players, picking up a start here and there. Learning from the already established stars.

But Barcelona's attacking stars are gone, and the replacements — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong, Martin Braithwaite — are all improvisations of one kind or another. There is real pressure on Torres to be brilliant immediately, and judging by last night's showing, he's feeling it. As