The Argentine star Lionel Messi will have a day of rest this Thursday and tomorrow he will undergo studies to find out the severity of the muscle injury for which he had to leave on Wednesday night in the match that Inter Miami beat Toronto 4-0. by the Major League Soccer (MLS) of the United States.
Leo was replaced prematurely, 36 minutes into the first half, in the match that marked his return after his debut with Argentina in the South American Qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, two weeks ago at the Monumental.
The Argentine felt discomfort in his right hamstring, where he has a scar from an old tear, which he presumably could have suffered from. “I cramped,” the Argentine replied to an opponent when he left the playing field at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale last night.
Due to that same ailment, Messi had been left out of Argentina’s match with Bolivia in La Paz, on Tuesday the 12th, and did not travel to Atlanta last weekend to face a match with “Las Garzas” for the American league. After the match, coach Gerardo Martino ruled it out for next weekend, when Inter faces Orlando in the Florida classic, in a new MLS matchday. “Obviously there is no chance of him playing on Sunday in Orlando,” said the coach.
Inter Miami will try to recover its top figure for next Wednesday’s final against Houston Dynamo for the US Open Cup, which could mean the Argentine’s second title in the club after his coronation in the Leagues Cup. However, Martino himself stated that he will not risk it even if it is a decisive match. “We will go day by day to find out if he is ready for the final. In no way are we going to risk it by playing a definition,” Tata said in the press conference after the game.
If a fibrillar rupture is confirmed, Messi will not only be ruled out for that match but could be in doubt for the next double qualifying round, in which Argentina will host Paraguay (Thursday, October 12) and visit Peru (Tuesday, October 17) . But in that sense, the Inter coach was confident that the discomfort is not so serious. “It’s muscle fatigue, I don’t think there is a muscle injury. But we will not rush it,” insisted Martino, who ruled out that it was a mistake to have him play because Messi had already recovered from the discomfort he had felt in his match with the National Team.
“If we made him play it is because he was medically fit to do so. He was not ready for the game against Atlanta United. We did subsequent training and we understood that he was fit to play,” the Argentine coach completed.
2023-09-21 14:08:00
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