The Spanish Football Thread

Alba and Xavi are fit, while Vilanova will be travelling to Paris.

Ibra's going to be pumped up for the match vs. Barcelona, considering how his spell didn't work out. I can't imagine Barca are going to be all too chuffed to see him either. All of the next round draw are going to be great games to watch. The way it's being reported, it seems PSG play the European games with more enthusiasm than the domestic leagues. If they go out and just about scrape through domestically with the league, I fear Ancelotti might get the chop. Although his saving grace might be Leonardo being in the director of football position might help him get another year.

Isn't Bartra a good player anyway? Just that Barca haven't given him a chance in the first team. I think Barca will definitely go through, PSG aren't used to facing continuous heavy pressure in Ligue 1, and the fact that the second leg is at the Nou Camp works in your favour too.

Reckon it'll either be 3atb or Montoya filling in

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Mascherano out 6 weeks ruptured knee ligament. Not good defensive crisis...

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How's Abidal? Song signing might actually end up been an important one

Looks like bartra will be getting some more action. I think villanova trusts him quite a bit personally.

Or that yeah. I'm ****ting wondering what's wrong with Messis knee. If it's an ACL tear then damn are we ****ed.

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It's not his knee, it's his hamstring. I've seen estimates of three weeks from certain sources, but they're going to be doing tests today.

Well thats us ****ed then :|

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Perhaps. Luckily you still have a substantial lead in the league, and will probably get past PSG at home without Messi. One would just hope he returns for the Champions League semi-finals. I'm gutted too, though.

General consensus is hamstring 3 weeks. Whenever I see someone holding their hamstring and they can't walk then they're out for 2-3 weeks.

Funnily enough I've never seen an ACL tear, although my brother had one and is still recovering from it.

ACL tears can be completely innocuous, I went quite a while before I found out that I had torn mine. Thats not good for Barcelona. Hate PSG so much.

Tbf it was kinda obvious with my bro the guy was on the floor pepe style after each tackle but it took him years before he found out(go figure).

Tbh the match really didn't live up to it's hype though. Disappointing.