Scaloni breaks silence on Messi injury, cautious over No. 10 fitness | OneFootball

Lionel Messi’s physical condition is drawing the attention of the football world, and Lionel Scaloni is clearly no exception: the Argentina national team coach told DSports how he learned about the injury and was cautious about the captain’s recovery.

“We were watching the match at the training ground, we noticed he asked to be substituted and that he wasn’t well. The initial news isn’t that bad; obviously, we would have preferred for nothing to happen to him. Now we have to wait and see how he progresses, the new tests they’re going to do, and whether it really is as they say”, he explained with a significant degree of caution.

The medical report on Messi released Monday by Inter Miami states that “the initial diagnosis indicates an overload associated with muscle fatigue in the left hamstring. Recovery time before he can return to physical activity will depend on his clinical and functional progress.”

“We all would have liked Messi to arrive without any kind of problem, but that’s not the case. Not only with him, most of the players still aren’t fully recovered. Our goal right now is to try to get Messi back and have him arrive in the best possible shape”, Scaloni said hopefully.

Argentina will face Honduras on June 6 in Texas, and three days later will wrap up its preparations in Alabama against Iceland.

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