Lionel Messi will be absent from one of the most important dates of the season for PSG. This Wednesday, Mauricio Pochettino’s team can become champion of Ligue 1, without former Barcelona on the pitch. According to the club, the striker suffered an injury that will prevent him from being against Angers.
“Leo Messi is still undergoing treatment for an inflammation of the left Achilles tendon”, says the medical report released this Tuesday on the Paris Saint Germain page. In the same document, the entity of the French capital announced that it will review the Argentine case again: “A new study will be carried out in 48 hours.”
It will be the tenth commitment that Messi has missed since PSG arrived at the start of the 2021-2022 campaign. Between September and October of last year he missed a total of five games due to knee problems.
This year, in the first week of 2022, the 30th of ‘Les Parisiens’ caught the coronavirus in Rosario, his hometown, during the year-end celebrations. Due to the positive for COVID-19, the crack was not in three games. In March, another game due to fever.
In April, the problem in the Achilles tendon prevents Messi from accompanying the team at the Raymond-Kopa stadium this Wednesday at two in the afternoon (Peruvian time). If PSG get a better result than Olympique Marseille (they play Nantes), they will lift the Ligue 1 trophy.
Blow to Messi
“The end of the Argentine era at PSG”, headlines an article published this Monday in L’Equipe, a prestigious media outlet in France. The cited source assured that Ángel Di María, Leandro Paredes and Mauro Icardi are living their last weeks in the institution. In this way, Lionel Messi will become the only representative of the Albiceleste in the capital’s squad.
Each of the Argentines who belongs to the ranks of ‘Les Parisiens’ has a different situation. In the case of Di María, the one who has been in the French capital the longest, he is linked until June and it is unlikely that he will be renewed. In this sense, the ‘Fideo’ looks for options to stay in Europe.
While Paredes and Icardi still have deals signed through mid-2023 and 2024, respectively. The midfielder and the striker have high chips and would not fit into PSG’s plans. Then, the people of the capital would be willing to hear offers for both players. If they cannot be sold, the entity would evaluate an assignment with some conditions.
Source: Elcomercio