Between the injury and the muscle discomfort, the captain of the National Team could rest against Peru in the Copa América

After his victory against Chile, Argentina He is already preparing his next game in the America Cupwhich will have him facing Peru to close its perfect march in the Group A If we add the victory against Canada in the debut. But the look of the team Lionel Scaloni It is set in its namesake, Lionel Messi.

Number 10 worried everyone in New Jersey when he had to be treated by kinesiologist Luis García in the middle of the game, during the first half of the clash against Chile. He touched his right adductor and came back after two minutes of massaging. The world champion captain never asked for a change and he completed the 90-odd minutes that the match lasted. How did he end up? He clarified it in the mixed zone and his testimony did not leave much peace of mind.

“What do I know… Now I’m going to see. I think so. It bothers me a little, but I was able to finish playing so I hope it’s nothing serious“, he responded when they asked him about the ailment that appeared, as he confessed, at the first stop of the night at the MetLife in New Jersey.

In that sense, after clarifying that never felt a pullHe added: “I finished well, although a little sore. I wasn’t completely loose. It bothered me a little. Tomorrow I’ll see how we continue. It was difficult for me to move freely. And then your head starts to play because you start to think about the puncture. But let’s see”.

There was another statement that caught Messi’s attention, at a good time, because without being asked he revealed the possible origin of the annoyance. “It was out of nowhere, I come from a couple of days with a sore throat, fever and maybe that took its toll on me. It’s not something old or something he had, it’s a contracture, we’ll see,” he confessed.

Then, before the microphone Clarionrecognized that the agonizing 1-0 victory with the goal of Lautaro Martínez It is a balm, because it allows him to secure classification and almost first place, which will lead to his probable absence in Miami next Saturday against Peru.

“The truth is that yes (I would have almost a week of rest), that’s why it’s good that we won in the end and obtained the classification. There are several games, there are long trips that we are doing, many days in hotels, resting badly, that’s what It’s good…”, he said.

With the victory, Argentina was three points behind its runner-up, Canada, the only rival that could take the first position in the area, and five points behind Peru and Chile. An unlikely but mathematically possible combination should occur so that the Albiceleste does not end up as leader: defeat against the Peruvians and victory for the Canadians against the Chileans, also paying attention to the goal difference.

For this reason, everyone already assumes that Argentina will face the second in Group B (Venezuela, Mexico, Ecuador or Jamaica), in a match that already has a date, time and venue: Thursday, July 4 at 10:00 p.m. (Argentine time) In Houston.

To know for sure what ails the captain of Argentina, we will have to wait for the studies that he will surely undergo in the next few hours with the medical team headed by Dr. Daniel Martínez. The delegation travels on a charter flight to Miami and only there will it be known how their daily lives continue.

In his contact with the press, Leo also analyzed the match: “It was a very tight game, it was difficult for us to find the spaces. I don’t want to emphasize that too much, but the court doesn’t help much either. Because you can’t play first class, you can’t play fast, you always need a little more time, even two. And it becomes difficult to find the spaces between the lines and when you move it from one side to the other, it becomes slower. But hey, we were able to move forward, obtain the victory and, above all, the classification to be calm,” he said.

The concrete thing is that Argentina can afford to rest its captain at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The match against Peru is on Saturday the 25th at 9:00 p.m. (Argentine time).

Coach Lionel Scaloni has already warned that with the guaranteed place among the eight best he will start a rotation so that those who have not yet had minutes can play.

“We will see how these days go, how I am recovering. We took an important step to be calm and to be classified. There are many games in a row, there are many trips. We will begin to think about what is coming,” Leo slipped, implying that He will most likely skip the duel against the Peruvians thinking about the quarterfinals.