The first rays of the morning sun filtered through the curtains of Izan's room, casting a golden glow on his face.
Sitting up carefully, Izan swung his legs over the bed and stretched his arms, wincing slightly as his left ankle throbbed—a reminder of the injury that had kept him off the pitch for a week now.
He had started recovering immediately after the diagnosis to help lessen the extent of the injury. "I really wished I had kept a bottle of the injury fluid in stock. I could have helped avoid the previous loss" Izan thought with his brush in his mouth.
After the match with Real Madrid, Valencia had to face an in-form Celta Vigo side that would punish any mistakes.
Coupled with their injury woes, Valencia couldn't hold on and lost their first game of the season in a 2-1 win for Celta.
