The 29-year-old will miss Argentina’s World Cup qualifiers in Peru on October 6 and at home to Paraguay five days later, the Argentina Football Association (AFA) said in a statement. Iniesta certainly think so.
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Bauza, speaking on Thursday, suggested the Spanish champions had not been careful enough when it comes to managing Messi’s playing time this season, with the forward having played the entirety of all but one of Barca’s eight matches prior to leaving the field against Atletico.
“It’s hard, it was a tough game and we gave a lot but sometimes these results happen”.
Prior to the Uruguay game on September 1, Barcelona had warned Argentina that Messi had a left adductor problem, but he played in the World Cup qualifier and scored the game’s only goal.
Barca’s all-time top scorer will miss league fixtures at Sporting Gijon and Celta Vigo as well as the Champions League group game with Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Enrique admitted it would be “difficult to protect” Messi with the games coming thick and fast for Barcelona and with Argentina no doubt desperate to have him involved in next month’s World Cup qualifiers. “He will be out of action for approximately three weeks”, Barcelona officials said in a statement.
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“We were the much better side in the second half but you can’t always win every game in the last minute”, Zidane told a news conference on Wednesday. In the first half they had a lot of possession and that made it complicated for us to get on the counter-attack. “We want to work alongside them for the good of the player, who is not just any player”.
