In the 61st minute, Correa received a Fernando Torres pass just outside the box, cut inside past a fallen Javier Mascherano and dragged his right-footed shot across Barca keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen to earn the 2014 champions a valuable point on the road.
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He was especially grateful to Moenchengladbach, who posted a message of support in Spanish to Messi on the club´s Twitter account.
Barcelona have already diagnosed a groin strain and believe he will be sidelined for around three weeks.
FC Barcelona and Argentina superstar Lionel Messi was forced to leave a match with what is being described as a recurring groin injury on Wednesday, at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain.
While Iniesta and Rakitic are expected to start on Saturday as well, Busquets was forced off early into the second half due to injury and it looks like Andre Gomes will be replacing the Spanish worldwide in the starting lineup this weekend.
“The team is stronger with Messi than without him, but it is the squad as a whole that wins titles.”We all wish he could play these next few games, but unforeseen circumstances do happen”. “It is odd that they make him play in all their matches”.
“Football lost today, and we lost Messi to injury”. Four days later, he missed Argentina’s match against Venezuela.
“Barcelona don’t make things hard for us. To us, that seems odd because three weeks is not enough time to fix a torn adductor”, Bauza told ESPN Radio.
“We deserved to win based on our approach and how we played”.
Atletico had to come out and show more ambition and Griezmann twice tried his luck early in the second period without success. It’s going to be really close, we have to keep going forward. “Our team doctors are waiting on the MRI to know the official grade of the injury”.
He badly bruised his lower back in an global friendly against Honduras in May, suffering “intense pain”, the Argentina team doctor said. “That way we will have a more definitive answer”.
Perhaps a minute elapsed between Lionel Messi’s trudging off the field as he dejectedly clutched his left thigh and Angel Correa’s joyously clenching his fist as he celebrated the goal that gave Atletico Madrid a point at Barcelona on Wednesday.
“I am happy with my players”, coach Zinedine Zidane said.
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In the nine games he missed from September through November, Barcelona won seven, drawing one and losing another – a 2-1 defeat at Sevilla. We’re already thinking about playing the games without him.
