VIDEO: There's been another horror injury in the Champions League tonight (GRAPHIC)

The triviality of football results became abundantly clear this week with a pair of horrible injuries to two of the sport's most promising young talents.

Luke Shaw's leg was broken in two places during Manchester United's 2-1 defeat to PSV on Tuesday night. And just 24 hours later it looks like Barcelona's Rafinha has suffered a similar fate after being injured seriously in a tackle from Radja Nainggolan.

La lesión de Rafinha por una entrada muy fea de Nainggolan. #UCL pic.twitter.com/AzIGFp8sIl
— Football Web (@FootballWeb_es) September 16, 2015

The 22-year-old was substituted off in the 65th minute, having just come on four minutes earlier, and the slow-motion replay shows that his season could be in serious jeopardy.

Nahhhh Rafinha's leg almost went full-Shaw pic.twitter.com/tk1u16Ihpz — Footy Accumulators (@FootyAccums) September 16, 2015

Nainggolan was booked for the tackle but he was lucky not to have been given his marching orders for a challenge from behind with which the Belgian used a scissors motion to bring Rafinha down.

@barcastuff Rafinha leaving the pitch pic.twitter.com/nBo2RJLqo0
— keval (@BleedBarca) September 16, 2015

We have our fingers crossed for a speedy recovery for both players.

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