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Video: Lionel Messi’s top 3 goal celebrations with Barcelona
On Sunday afternoon, Lionel Messi scored a thunderbolt goal against Osasuna, and paid tribute to the late Diego Maradona with an iconic celebration, unveiling a Newell’s jersey of the Argentine legend.
Adding the moment to his collection of goal celebrations, we take a look at the 33-year-old’s best goal celebrations at the Catalan club.
The first one is a 90+2′ late winner against Real Madrid, at the Santiago Bernabeu, entirely silencing the stadium with his celebration. The second one is against Liverpool’s wall Alisson Becker from a long-range freekick, and last but not least, his celebration after his goal against Osasuna, which surprisingly was very similar to one of Maradona’s goals at Newell’s.
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All victories come with a cost and Barcelona’s great triumph over Sevilla is no exception. Sadly, the Catalans’ young prodigy, Pedri, had to leave the pitch in the second half of the clash and now, the club has officially confirmed that the 18-year-old had sustained a muscular injury.
As of right now, however, we still don’t know how serious it is and we’ll have to wait for further information, which is most likely to arrive tomorrow. Unfortunately, the early speculations are not good as it seems Pedri could indeed be out of commission for a couple of weeks at least.
Needless to say, that’s a huge hit for Barcelona since the schedule is unrelenting. Soon, it will be time to face Sevilla again in the Copa del Rey and also Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. Doing so without Pedri could indeed be troublesome.
But we also have to wonder how did it come to this injury. The 18-year-old is a key member of the squad so it’s understandable Ronald Koeman would want him to play all the time.
However, that might be the very crux of the problem too. With so little rest in-between the games, it was just a matter of time before Pedri’s body could take no more.
Still, not all is lost and he should be back in time to help Barcelona finish the season strong. And besides, now the youngster can finally get some well-deserved rest.
Hopefully the team can manage without him for a short period of time.