2024-02-07 02:30:11
Messi: from step by step of his absence in Hong Kong to the unknown in Tokyo
The captain of the National Team was very active in all the friendlies. Martino took him little by little to handle the loads: he started playing 45′ in the 0-0 draw against El Salvador, then he played 64′ in the 0-1 draw against Dallas. The third presentation was in the 3-4 against Al Hilal, at the Kingdom Arena stadium in Riyadh: he played 87′, he was very engaged (he converted a penalty goal), but it was surprising that he came out so soon after the end. What was the reason? Leo asked for the change because he felt muscle discomfort.
Hours after the game, Leo went to a hospital in Saudi Arabia where they detected inflammation in the right adductor where they saw edema. Between the match with Al Hilal and the very tough 0-6 against Al Nassr, barely 72 hours passed. During that period, 10 underwent studies almost every day to observe the evolution. Leo, despite the fact that the game was settled and 0-6, entered in the 83rd minute for the Ecuadorian Campana.
From Riyadh to Hong Kong. Leo had a new commitment. The pain continued. Despite that, on the 10th he went out onto the field to greet the almost 40,000 fans who came to see the previous practice because they wanted to see the best in the world. Leo couldn’t exercise much due to the discomfort in his adductor, but he stayed on the field until the end.
The next day was the match, the only one in which Messi could not be present. The pain persisted and so that the injury did not worsen, all parties decided that Leo should not play. “The truth is that it was bad luck that I couldn’t be on the day of the Hong Kong match,” he said on Tuesday at the conference. He knows all the controversy that was generated by his absence and the public’s anger, but he could not risk the pain turning into an injury.
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