Barcelona's players have been ridiculed for wearing special shirts showing support to injured forward Ousmane Dembele before their victory over Eibar.

Barcelona's starting line-up posed for a team photograph with 'Courage Ousmane' printed on the front of t-shirts that they worn in the warm-up.

Dembele, who joined Barcelona for £96.8million from Borussia Dortmund, was ruled out of action for three and a half months after suffering a hamstring injury against Getafe at the weekend.

Barcelona's players wore special 'Courage Ousmane' shirts ahead of their win over Eibar

Ousmane Dembele suffered a hamstring injury during last weekend's game with Getafe

It has since been confirmed that Dembele will be out of action for three and a half months

But despite the gesture being good natured it was mocked by a number of people on Twitter on Tuesday night.

One wrote: 'He's done his hamstring not died ffs.' 'This is soooo cringe! He has minor injury he isn't dying,' another added.

Dembele's absence didn't seem to have a negative, however, as Barcelona thrashed Eibar 6-1.

A number of people on social media mocked the gesture on Tuesday night

Lionel Messi scored four times to take his tally to nine for the season as Paulinho and Denis Suarez also got off the mark.

Sergio Enrich pulled a goal back for Eibar midway through the second half but he couldn't prevent Barcelona recording their fifth straight victory in La Liga.

It isn't the first time footballers have shown solidarity with an injured colleague by wearing shirts with their names on.

Ilkay Gundogan's Manchester City team-mates all wore his No 8 shirt before a match against Arsenal in December last year after the German suffered a cruciate ligament injury.

Manchester United warmed up in shirts with the names of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Marcos Rojo on the back in April after both players suffered cruciate ligament injuries in the Europa League semi-final with Anderlecht.

Manchester City players wore 'Gundogan 8' shirts when the German suffered an injury

Wayne Rooney wears the shirt of Zlatan Ibrahimovic after the Swede suffered a bad injury