Messi’s future without Champions: only the French league and a tight schedule until Qatar

Messi’s future without Champions: only the French league and a tight schedule until Qatar

After painful eliminations with Barcelona, Leo Messi came to Paris with the central objective of raising the “Orejona” again. Although from the beginning the winner of four Champions He warned that the road would not be easy, the context seemed favorable due to the assembly of a team full of figures.

In the last European summer, Messi arrived at the powerful French club together with the Spanish Sergio Ramos and Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarummanew champion of the European Championship.

the right side Achraf Hakimichampion of Italy with Inter and the midfielder Georginio Wijnaldumcaptain of the Dutch national team completed the squad of stars that he already had at Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Marco Verratti and the Argentines Angel Di Maria, Leandro Paredes and Mauro Icardi.

The painful and incredible defeat on Wednesday at the stadium Santiago Bernabeu left the team Mauricio Pochettino with a season finale without great motivations but with the obligation to conquer the Ligue 1 from France.

Still not shining PSG He took 13 points ahead of his escort Nice when there are eleven dates left to go and 20 to Lillethe team that snatched the title from him last season.

The pressure to win the title also grew after losing the other two opportunities to add trophies in the season: defeat in the final of the French Super Cup in view of Lillein August, and early elimination in the French Cupat the end of January.

The next Sunday, PSG will receive Bordeaux in the stadium Princes Park of the French capital and there is expected a furious reaction from the public who already showed their anger during one of the last home games.

“Disrespectful managers, unwilling players, shirts without our colours: PSG’s only treble this year”said one of the flags hung by the Parisian “ultras”.

From this Sunday until May 20, date of the last day, Messi will have as “attractive” the duels before Monacoas a visitor, before the last double date of playoffs South Americans, and the visit to Paris from jorge sampaoli in front of the Olympic from Marseillesmid-April.

To maintain this advantage, the conquest of the title could take place on April 23 against lens at home or the following weekend before Strasbourgas a visitor.

Personally, Messi, with seven goals scored in 25 games in all competitions, could close their worst tally since the 2007-08 campaign. The star scored at least 30 goals in each season from 2007-08.

the trophy of the Ligue 1 it would be number 39 of the career of Messiwho set himself the goal of reaching the record of 43 set by his friend and former teammate, the Brazilian Daniel Alves.

The Argentine national team and the World Cup, its maximum (and only?) motivation

the good for Messi is that surely next Monday the 21st he will be back at the venue of the AFA on Ezeiza and will change air with the champion squad of the America Cup and that is already qualified for Qatar 2022.

The “10” will be the star and the most applauded by the public that will bid farewell to the “Scaloneta” in the match on Friday, March 25 at the candy box and four days later he will travel to Guayaquil to close the Play off against Ecuador from Gustavo Alfaro.

At the beginning of June, with the end of the 2021/22 season, it will be time for balances and surely changes.

Before the Qatar World Cup, Messi will take on a tight schedule as the group stage of the Champions League 2022/23 It is scheduled for the first week of September and the last date will be played between November 1 and 2.

In the middle, the Ligue 1 plans to play the first 15 dates between August 7 and November 13, a week before the start of the world Cup.

With the Argentine national teamthe captain plans to play the two aforementioned games and then the match remains against ItalyJune 1 at Londonand in those days the possibility of disputing the pending duel before Brazilsuspended in September 2021.

In September will be the last window FIFA for friendlies and in the last few hours the possibility of facing Mexico and Brazil on United States.

Source: Ambito

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