Leo Messi was the big absence in the FC Barcelona in the semifinals of the Supercopa of Spain. The Argentinian not even dressed of short against the Real Sociedad and had to see from the terracing the thrilling meeting between Barcelona and donostiarras. Luckily, in spite of the drop of the of Rosario, the Barça did not fail against the 'txuri-urdin' and attained to happen to the big final winning in the batch of penaltis of the hand of a big Marc-André ter Stegen.
Now, the doubt is in knowing if the '10' will play this Sunday in front of the AthleticClub , that deleted to the Real Madrid in 'semis'. These last days was speaking that the attacker was every time better and that his idea was to arrive to time for the crash. To hours of the meeting, from the 'BE' and 'Sportive World' confirm again these informations and leave clear that the captain aims to the final.
Leo has trained this Sunday with total normality beside the rest of his mates and has not noticed any worrisome annoyance in the backside of the left leg. In the previous of the semifinals in front of the Real, instead, the forward yes felt pain and not even worked in the session of the day of the party. Knowing this, that have trained today are big news that do to think that it will not have problems to play.
In the 'BE', in fact, ensure that Messi has decided that it wants to play the final. This is key, since the own Ronald Koeman ensured that the decision to be or will not be of the footballer. "Messi will have the last word, to see how reacts his body. We will expect until in the morning (by this Sunday). Have the hope that it can play", affirmed the Dutch, leaving clear that everything depends of the player.
In the next hours will confirm if the 'capi' go in or no in the list of summoned for this final of the Supercopa. The normal would be that it was between the elected and that like minimum was in the bench. To confirm his lacking titularity more time, since the eleven will not be official until an hour before the crash. Then it will know if for real the '10' sees to 100% to be able to decide this title.
Braithwaite Would fall of the eleven if it plays Messi
In case that the six times Balloon of Gold can play, everything seems to indicate that Koeman would take out this alignment: Ter Stegen; Alba, Lenglet, Araújo, Dest; Of Jong, Busquets, Pedri; Griezmann, Dembélé and Messi. Martin Braithwaite would be the big victim by the return of the rosarino regarding the eleven that played in front of the Real. The Danish would expect in the bench and would be one of the revulsivos for the second time.