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According to El Confidential and ARA, Messi twisted his ankle in Thursday’s training and was not 100% fit going into Saturday’s match.
However, Messi refused to let a minor sprain keep him from football’s biggest stage and the player reportedly took painkillers to dull the pain for El Clásico, but to no avail.
The club has yet to acknowledge that the four-time Ballon d’Or winner suffered an injury before or during El Clasico.
If this is true, i hate when he acts like this. Last time he did it was 7-0 with bayern.
tito era though so that could be the bigger factor tho.