Paris (dpa)
The French football team, Paris Saint-Germain, misses the efforts of Argentine Lionel Messi against Freve Bordeaux due to injury, but the player is expected to be ready to participate with the Argentine national team in the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Messi, the six-time winner of the Ballon d’Or, was replaced between the two halves of the match that Saint-Germain beat Lille 2-1 last week, and then missed the match in which Saint-Germain tied with Leipzig 2-2 in the Champions League.
The Barcelona legend continues to suffer from a knee and hamstring problem, and he will not be risked against Bordeaux on Saturday, as coach Mauricio Pochettino seeks to consolidate the team’s lead in the French League.
Messi has also missed several matches since joining PSG last August, coming from Barcelona, but Pochettino hopes that his compatriot will be able to return to the Argentine national team’s matches against Uruguay and Brazil in the next two weeks.
“Lionel will not be available for Saturday’s match and he will not travel with us,” Pochettino told a news conference on Friday.
We hope that he will be available to play with Argentina and come back to us afterwards.” And Messi is not the only one suffering from a frustrating start with the team outside Spain, as his teammate Sergio Ramos has not played a game with the team since joining him on a free transfer from Real Madrid in July.
French press reports indicated that the presidents of Saint-Germain are concerned about the way Ramos will recover, but the player is currently close to returning to participate in the matches.
And Saint-Germain confirmed on its official website, today, Friday, that Ramos is scheduled to participate in full training next week, which means that the player may participate for the first time with the team in a match that was scheduled to take place on November 20.
Saint-Germain is at the top of the French League, eight points behind its closest rivals.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/saint-germain-loses-messi/
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