Barcelona (AFP)
Argentine FC Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi (32) returned to train with the Catalan group on Monday after missing last week's group sessions due to contracture in the right quadriceps, the club said in a statement. Monday.
Messi trained "with the rest of the team at the start of the La Liga recovery week," the Catalan club said in a statement released on Monday.
The Barça captain found the lawn of Camp Nou on Saturday, but did specific work on the sidelines of the group session, after missing two training sessions with the rest of the team on Wednesday and Friday due to "small contracture in the right leg quadriceps, "as the club said in a statement on Friday.
"His problem is minor, the situation is under control, he is perfectly fine and will have no problems," said FC Barcelona coach Quique Setién in the Movistar + program El Partidazo on Sunday.
"Messi is not the only one not to have trained and to feel embarrassment. (...) This has happened to all the injured or almost since their return," continued Setién.
The sixfold Ballon d'Or will therefore be available to play the first match of the leader Barça for the resumption of the Spanish championship after three months of paralysis due to the pandemic of new coronavirus, Saturday at 8:00 p.m. GMT in Mallorca.
La Liga will resume Thursday evening at 20:00 GMT with the Andalusian derby between Sevilla FC and Betis Sevilla.
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