{"id":2604,"date":"2016-09-23T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2016-09-23T13:54:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:54:45","slug":"barcelona-dont-take-care-of-messi-argentina-coach-edgardo-bauza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/09\/23\/barcelona-dont-take-care-of-messi-argentina-coach-edgardo-bauza\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona don\u2019t take care of Messi: Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza on Thursday blasted Barcelona for not taking care of Lionel Messi and doubted he would be fit in time for his country\u2019s World Cup qualifying matches next month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Messi was injured on Wednesday in Barcelona\u2019s 1-1 draw against Atletico Madrid, and the club reported that he has a torn right adductor and will be out for three weeks.<\/p>\n

Bauza was critical of Barcelona for playing Messi in four games in 12 days despite a groin injury in his other leg that limited him earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarcelona always sends us messages saying that we must take care of Messi, but they don\u2019t take care of him very well,\u201d Bauza told Fox Sports. \u201cIt is strange that they make him play in all their matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bauza said that Messi was already struggling with a left adductor injury that put him in doubt against Uruguay in September. Four days later, he missed Argentina\u2019s match against Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Messi then played in four straight matches for Barcelona against Alaves, Celtic, Leganes and Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe received the official report from Barcelona. To us, that seems strange because three weeks is not enough time to repair a torn adductor,\u201d Bauza told ESPN Radio. \u201cWe haven\u2019t yet been able to speak with him, but we want to know how serious the injury is.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarcelona have made it more complicated for us. They posted an official statement and at the moment that is all we have to go on. Our team doctors are waiting on the MRI to know the official grade of the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently, studies have been done and we are waiting on those results, which will be sent to our national team doctors. That way we will have a more definitive answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Argentina resume their World Cup qualifying campaign at Peru on Oct. 6 and home against Paraguay five days later, but Bauza does not expect Messi to be available.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thinking that Messi is not going to be able to play in the qualifiers,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we hope that it is nothing serious and that in three weeks he returns to action. But I am thinking about playing these matches without him.<\/p>\n

\u201cTactically, there isn\u2019t much we could change without him. I have various options, which we will evaluate once we have all the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cDown the right side, we could even use [Paulo] Dybala, or even [Angel] Di Maria, Augusto Fernandez, [Erik] Lamela or [Nicolas] Gaitan. We must wait until they arrive to see who is in better shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bauza said he would evaluate what changes he would make in Messi\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am envisioning the team without Messi because if Leo left the field it is because something happened,\u201d Bauza said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe never goes out. Now the most important thing is that Messi gets better. After that, we shall see. I think that for the [November] matches against Brazil and Colombia, we will likely have him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza on Thursday blasted Barcelona for not taking care of Lionel Messi and doubted he would be fit in time for his country’s World Cup qualifying matches next month. Messi was injured on Wednesday in Barcelona’s 1-1 draw against Atletico Madrid, and the club reported that he has a torn right adductor and will be out for three weeks. Bauza was critical of Barcelona for playing Messi in four games in 12 days despite a groin injury in his other leg that limited him earlier in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}