Forced to leave Sunday night after twenty minutes of play in Championship of Spain , the Argentine striker Lionel Messi Barca suffered a muscle tear in his left thigh. He will have to remain sidelined six to eight weeks, said his club on Monday.
“The reviews on Monday morning confirmed that the player suffered a torn femoral biceps of the left leg”, the club said in a statement, adding that “the recovery time [was] six to eight weeks”.
If this period is confirmed, “Leo Messi will miss at least eight games , “said the club, including two games at the end of the group stage of the Champions League(against Ajax and Celtic), while his team has been qualifier for the knockout stages.This relapse also deprive the two friendly matches to be play next week the Argentine against the Ecuador and the Bosnia and Herzegovina .
This new injury will revive concerns about the quadruple Ballon d ‘ or , too often injured this season, because it comes after many physical problems for the player, including injuries to both legs in 2013. “Injuries are Messi a major problem” for the club, says Josep Maria Casanovas, the editor of the journal Sport in Barcelona.
On his return in mid-October – after two weeks of downtime – Messi seemed not to have the same range than usual and he explained last Saturday not be still “100% fit”.
The black series could weigh the end of the year, when the Argentine deliver its gold ball game with only eight goals in La Liga this season, against 16 for his great Portuguese rival Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), “la Pulga ” does not show the same performance as in previous years.
FC Barcelona: Messi out for six to eight weeks
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