Kylian Mbappé, absent on Friday against Lille in the French league game (2-1), returns instead to the group of 21 players called up by the coach.
The star of Paris SG Lionel Messi, who has a sore left leg hamstring and knee pain, will be out for Wednesday’s game of the Champions League against the german team LeipzigHis club announced on Tuesday.
The attacker Kylian Mbappé, absent on Friday against Lille in the French league game (2-1) due to an infection, instead returns to the group of 21 players called up.
Messi, who had already been in pain for several days, had been replaced as a precaution at halftime of that match against Lille.
After the game, his coach, the Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino, he estimated that the star “was going to be available for Leipzig.”
But his absence on Monday at Paris SG training already hinted that it would not be the case.
The PSG medical statement speaks of “a discomfort in the hamstrings in the left (leg) and pain in the knee after a blow ”, without specifying the duration of his absence.
This injury also compromises the presence of the “Flea” in Bordeaux, Saturday in Ligue 1.
Messi must then chain two games with the Argentine team in the framework of the qualifications for the World Cup-2022, in Uruguay and against Brazil.
Third party off
This is the third game that the 34-year-old is going to miss due to injury, after a bone contusion to his left knee also deprived him of two games of the game. french championship By the end of September.
In the Champions League, the Rosario player has scored three goals, including a double against RB Leipzig (3-2) in the first game against the Germans, on October 19.
In an interview that appeared on Monday in the Barcelona newspaper Sport, Messi stated that winning a fifth Champions League, which would be the first for the French club, was “one of the reasons” that weighed on his decision to sign this season with him. Paris Saint Germain, whose main objective is to win that continental cup that is missing from his record.
The Argentinian Leandro Paredes (quadriceps), the Italian Marco Verratti (hip) and Spanish Sergio Ramos (calf) round out PSG’s casualty list for Wednesday’s game in Leipzig.
In the case of the Spanish defender, who has not yet played a minute in his new colors, PSG speaks of a return to training “with the group in the coming days.”
In the event of a victory in Leipzig, PSG will be very close to qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League for the tenth consecutive year. (D)
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