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Barcelona's Aleix Vidal suffers horrific ankle injury in win over Alaves

The Catalan right-back went down under a Theo Hernandez challenge in the 87th minute and could now be facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines

Barcelona defender Aleix Vidal suffered a horrific ankle injury in the 87th minute of his team’s mauling of Deportivo Alaves.

Luis Enrique’s side were leading 6-0 in the dying stages of the game at Estadio de Mendizorroza when Alaves’s Theo Hernandez slid in on Vidal.

The right-back, who has been performing well of late and provided the assist for Luis Suarez to score the first goal of the match, went down and stayed down.