The proof that Leo Messi took well his suplencia

Roughly an hour before the party of the fifth day of the phase of groups of the Champions League that confronted to the FC Barcelona to the Juventus of Turín in the Allianz Stadium, jumped the big surprise: Lionel Messi was not in the eleven headline and would touch him begin the party from the bench.

After the surprising news, could think that it treated of physical problems. However, the spokesmen of the FC Barcelona descartaron this possibility confessing that the Argentinian forward is in a state of optimum form and that treated of a technical decision of Ernesto Valverde.

On the contrary of what could seem, overcoat by some episode with Luis Enrique, did not seem that Leo Messi took badly his suplencia in the Allianz Stadium. The Argentinian forward showed sonriente just before beginning the party and even dared to throw some laughs with his Argentinian compatriot Gonzalo Higuaín.

A year without suplencias

Leo Messi was not acting in a party from the October of the past 2016. In case of the Champions League, have to go us to the 2013 to see a party in which Messi split from the bench in this competition.

The suplencia was consequence of a technical decision in which it pretends that the Argentinian rest and arrive fresco physically to the meeting that the Barça will contest the Sunday in Mestalla against Valencia.