The Catalan mentor has taken out time to voice his opinion regarding the injury suffered by the talismanic forward, suggesting that the team will handle the situation with patience.
Barcelona head coach, Tito Vilanova, has expressed that he is not aware of the duration which http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 will spend on the sidelines. However, he maintained that he is ready to face the scenario with patience.
Vilanova asserted that he is ready to wait on the left-footed forward and stated that he has no regrets at letting the athlete go on from the bench in the second half.
Messi suffered a knock during Barca’s UEFA Champions League encounter against Benfica. The match that took place at the Nou Camp saw the Argentine carried off the field on a stretcher as he had endured an injury on his knee.
The knock comes as a shock for the Barca faithful as their star player is only one goal shy of breaking Gerd Muller’s record of being the highest goal number of goals scored in one year. Many believe that Messi going on in the second half was an attempt
at letting him score the one goal between him and the record.
However, things did not go as planned for the current FIFA Club World Cup champions as La Pulga suffered an injury. In addition, the Catalans also failed to emerge victorious from the encounter against Benfica.
The match ended with a score line of 0-0.
"He (Messi) was quiet, but also worried, like any other player who had been injured or hit," Vilanova said.
"We do not know yet what he has done, but after the check-up from the doctors he was even more quiet, but as I said, we still have to wait and see. Not just because in Europe is very difficult to beat any team. We are talking about a group stage of six games,
and any single mistake can put you out. So to say that it is clear which two are going to go through - I think the last two years have shown that it's more difficult.”
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 managed to qualify to the knock out stage as winners from their group.
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