Spanish giants Barcelona have this evening confirmed the club’s squad for their Clasico showdown with Real Madrid tomorrow night.
Barcelona vs Real Madrid
The Blaugrana are set to welcome Real to the Camp Nou for the first-leg of their Copa Del Rey semi-final tie.
The clash comes as the first of three meetings set to take place between the two sides over the next month.
After going head-to-head in the 2nd-leg of their Copa tie on the 27th, Barca will then travel to the Bernabeu for a La Liga matchup on the 2nd of March.
Messi concern
Tomorrow night’s hosts, meanwhile, stumbled to a 2-2 draw at home to Valencia last time out.
The Blaugrana, currently 6 points clear atop the La Liga table, were forced to overcome a 2-0 deficit at the Camp Nou, with Lionel Messi having notched both of his side’s goals in a typically transcendent performance:
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Who else but the GOAT to keep Barcelona in it? 🐐
Lionel Messi as calm and cool as ever scores for Barca 😎 pic.twitter.com/llVwLnB2L7
— Eleven Sports (@ElevenSports_UK) February 2, 2019
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MESSSSSSSI!
Barca have brought it back thanks to the genius Lionel Messi! 🐐
Look at the passion, what a goal! 😍 pic.twitter.com/6JnvnvEFqa
— Eleven Sports (@ElevenSports_UK) February 2, 2019
However, in a worrying development late in Saturday night’s clash, Messi also went down with a thigh problem, requiring treatment from Barcelona’s medical team.
And, though the Argentine went on to see out the remainder of the 90 minutes, Barca boss Ernesto Valverde confirmed in a post-match interview that his side’s talisman would require further tests to assess the seriousness of the issue:
Valverde: Messi has a small [thigh] problem but we still don’t know [what it is exactly]. There will be tests tomorrow to find out.
— Samuel Marsden (@samuelmarsden) February 2, 2019
As such, Messi was immediately labelled as a doubt to be fit to feature versus Real tomorrow night.
Messi in, Dembele out
But, in a huge boost to all associated with the Catalan giants, Barcelona’s squad announcement this evening has seen the 31-year-old named as part of Valverde’s El Clasico panel.
In less positive news for the Blaugrana, however, Ousmane Dembele has not been included.
French winger Dembele picked up an ankle injury versus Leganes two weeks ago, and has since been struggling with a bout of flu.
As such, Barca will have to make do without the services of their wing-wizard tomorrow night:
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FC Barcelona 🆚 Real Madrid#CopaBarça #ElClásico pic.twitter.com/BAUCa0Xdi1— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) February 5, 2019
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