Lionel Messi is recovering from what Inter Miami coach Tata Martino has previously described as “fatigue.”
“It’s a handicap when you don’t have the best player in the world, of course,” Busquets said. “But we’ll wait and see till tomorrow, maybe there’s a chance that he can be there and help us. But if not there will be another teammate who, with their quality, will contribute.”Busquets added: “I think Leo has the desire to help the team and to win another championship. But like we said earlier, he’s going to know how much he can contribute.
Messi played 600 minutes in August, exceeding any calendar month in minutes played since he left Barcelona in 2019. Martino emphasized that the club had to measure Messi’s health the rest of the season against the risk of playing him in the Cup final. Martino said the team remains focused on trying to sneak into the playoffs. Miami was in last place in the league when Messi arrived. The team sits in 14th place out of 15 teams in the Eastern Conference, five points out of a playoff spot, albeit with games in hand on most of the teams ahead of them in the standings.on the weekend at home, then travels to Chicago on Oct. 4 and hosts FC Cincinnati on Oct. 7 before the October FIFA international window.
“Obviously the league objective was the most difficult one,” Martino said. “But where we are right now, we’re going to keep trying .”Martino stopped short of saying that Messi might be shut down for the rest of the season. “In reality, it doesn’t occur to us that he wouldn’t play the rest of the year,” Martino said. “If we’re here evaluating whether he can play tomorrow or not, in no way are we thinking that he might miss the rest of the league’s games. Of course, the possibility exists that the medical department tells us that we’d be running a risk, we’d eventually decide not to run those risks. But as of today, we don’t consider that possibility of him missing those games.
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