Ballon d’Or holder and Paris Saint-Germain superstar Lionel Messi has sparked major concern in France’s capital late on Thursday.
This comes amid widespread confirmation that the Argentine is suffering with an injury problem.
For those not aware, Messi was afforded his latest start last night, as PSG made the trip to the Stade Velodrome for the latest edition of Le Classique.
When all was said and done, however, Christophe Galtier’s troops were put to the sword by two goals to one, owing to strikes on the part of Alexis Sanchez, and match-winner Ruslan Malinovskyi:
𝑪𝑬 𝑩𝑶𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑳𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑫𝑬 𝑪𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑵 𝘿𝙀 @malinovskyi18 🤯🔥
Le résumé de ce #OMPSG de folie disponible 👉 https://t.co/WZ6adxwzz4 pic.twitter.com/mCeGx3ZLij
— Olympique de Marseille (@OM_Officiel) February 8, 2023
And their eventual defeat did not only prove costly in seeing the Ligue 1 champions consigned to an early exit from the Coupe de France.
In addition, as alluded to above, talismanic attacker Lionel Messi is understood to have suffered a fresh fitness blow on Wednesday night.
In turn, he has already been ruled out of PSG’s league showdown with AS Monaco this weekend.
Beyond this, his participation on the European front is viewed as being altogether up in the air, too, ahead of a crunch Champions League Last-16 first-leg meeting with German heavyweights Bayern Munich next Tuesday.
Such a miss would mark nothing short of a hammer blow for PSG boss Galtier, who is already being forced to navigate a crucial stretch of the term without the services of frontman Kylian Mbappe.
Lionel Messi s’est blessé durant la rencontre face à l’OM (1-2), mercredi en Coupe de France. L’Argentin est forfait pour le déplacement à Monaco et incertain pour la réception du Bayern Munich en Ligue des champions https://t.co/bKaeNNW09w pic.twitter.com/9RFshYwpS6
— L’ÉQUIPE (@lequipe) February 9, 2023
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