Valverde on Messi's injury: “When something happens, the world stops”

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Messi seems to be in a loop as it happened when he began to settle in the first team of Barcelona, when he was detected that he had sprinter muscles and that he had to change the food and preventive work, in addition to rest, so as not to spend more time than normal in rebound. It happened when he arrived in this preseason, in training, when he was injured in the soleus. It happened again in another training, when he was already seen as headline against Betis and relapsed from the sole. And, to his misfortune, it happened again last night, after he received the Best prize in Milan on Monday. So Messi has not completed any entire game of the seven disputed, with half an hour before September 17 in Dortmund, with half in front of Granada and with the other half against Villarreal, in the game in which he fulfilled 400 titles in The league.
It was an isolated move, but soon he put his hand to the adductor of his left leg. So he approached the technical area to give him some fray, to assess with the doctor if it was broken or not. And it didn't seem like much because after a few minutes, he hung a side foul that almost didn't catch Piqué. Although after the intermission he no longer appeared dressed short and Dembélé took his place.

“Leo has some discomfort in the adductor,” confirmed the coach, Ernesto Valverde, at the end of the meeting, without giving an estimated time to leave; "We did not want to risk and we have chosen as a precaution that it did not follow, but we will wait for medical tests." Having it far from the field, however, is something that worries everyone. "We have not had time to talk because Mr. gave tactical orders, but he has discomfort and hopefully it is nothing," Griezmann said. “It is the best and the most imbalancing in the world, so having it is an advantage. Let him return to the team as soon as possible, ”Busquets added. “Hopefully it is as little as possible. Nobody expected it, but it is no excuse because we are Barça and we have to take the games forward and win even if we lack the best, ”said Piqué when leaving the shower.

The incidence of Messi in the field, in any case, was immediately seen before Villarreal, who took the ball and became the owner of the game for a quarter of an hour until Cazorla became a target. “When something happens to Messi, everyone stops. It happened to us last year against Sevilla when he had the problem in his arm, ”lamented Valverde, who acknowledged a low of his team when the 10 went to the technical area. Although the recurrence of their injuries, however, they do not seem to worry the group too much. "He has done few workouts and has been injured for a while ... And taking the form in the games is complicated," said Valverde. Although Piqué was harder with the club to explain the physical moment of Leo and the team in general. “The preseason has not helped anything. Both travel and little training ... And the preseason is necessary because many have not yet taken the optimal tone to compete and there are several who notice discomfort. But that's what there is".

Messi received the Best prize awarded by FIFA on Monday night in Milan. After obtaining the award, he said about the weak start of the season of the Barca team: “We started badly, we find it hard to find the game, generate opportunities, and without anything we are in danger. It's a group issue and we have to react now. ” He also praised Ansu Fati: "I was impressed since I saw him train the first day." And he admitted that he is still not fit: “He had been standing for more than two months, almost three months. The other day I felt tired, heavy, lacking rhythm and spark; You should go slowly. They told me a lot that I could relapse, there was no need to risk ”.

Although he did not exhibit his best version, Barcelona regained the color in the Camp Nou with a win over Villarreal, without intensity but with aim in the first act and with electricity but without a twist in the auction in the second. It reached him with a goal from Griezmann as soon as the duel began and with another colossal from Arthur from a long distance. "We had to win yes or yes," Piqué reflected. "We could not afford more stumbles and let the others leave," said Busquets, always pragmatic; “Because outside we have to improve. There are few but enough matches to see that we have not been well. Although against Villarreal, we have had the ball more and I think the victory has been fair because we have practically not suffered. ”

Barcelona did well to score two goals in one stroke because the opponent, as did Betis, Valencia, Osasuna and Granada, was right on his first shot on goal.