Messi will not travel with Paris Saint-Germain to Bordeaux!
The coach of Paris Saint-Germain, the leader of the French Football League, Mauricio Pochettino, announced on Friday that his newcomer, Lionel Messi, will not travel to Bordeaux on Saturday for the expected meeting in the 13th stage of competitions.
The little "flea" will miss the second match in a row, after he did not participate against Leipzig on Wednesday in the match that ended in a 2-2 draw in the fourth round of the Champions League.
Despite suffering a double injury to his thigh and knee, the name of the former Barcelona star was included on Thursday in the list of international players to defend the Argentina shirt in his due against Uruguay on the 12th of this month and Brazil on the 16th of it, as part of the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. .
Pochettino confirmed during the press conference he held on the eve of his match against Bordeaux that Messi: "He will join the Argentina national team and we will see if he can play."
The meeting against Bordeaux will be the fourth that the 34-year-old has missed the 6-time Ballon d'Or winner since joining the capital club this summer due to injury, after the Metz and Montpellier matches at the end of September in the "Ligue 1" (a bruise in the left knee) and Leipzig in the main continental competition. .
And Saint-Germain indicated in a statement that Messi continued his treatment, Friday, at the training center, for "hamstring and hamstring pain."
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