Lionel Messi set off the alarms Argentine National Team when he had to be treated by kinesiologist Luis García in the first half of the match against Chile, for the second date of Group A of the Copa América. He touched his right adductor and came back after two minutes of massaging. The world champion captain never asked for a change and he completed the 90-odd minutes that the match lasted. How did he end up? He clarified it in the mixed zone and was far from calm.
“What do I know… Now I’m going to see. I think so. It bothers me a little, but I was able to finish playing so I hope it’s nothing serious“, responded to the question about the seriousness of his illness that appeared, as he confessed, in the first rush of the night at the MetLife in New Jersey.
And he added, after clarifying that he never felt a pull: “I finished well, although a little sore. It wasn’t completely loose. It bothered me a little. Tomorrow I’ll see how we continue. It was difficult for me to move freely. And then your head starts to play. because you start to think about the puncture. But let’s see.”
We will then have to wait for the studies that he will surely undergo in the next few hours. The concrete thing is that Argentina can afford to rest him for Saturday’s game against Peru, at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. Coach Lionel Scaloni has already warned that with the guaranteed place among the eight best he will start a rotation so that those who have not yet had minutes can play.
