Lionel Messi last night presented the Golden Show which he won for being the leading goalscorer in Europe to the Camp Nou faithfuls. To make the moment more wonderful, the team obliged with a near perfect 4-0 drubbing of Granada.
In an interview given to De Telegraaf, Lionel Messi reiterated his wish to continue at Barca and possibly retire here.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Ian Fleming"
This has to be more than coincidence. I mean how can it happen again? Are we seeing a repeat of Barca's injury crisis imploding? "Imploding" is the right word as any aggravation from this moment could take us with it. May be I am just being a normal Cule - the one who start to panic at the mere mention of the word injury. What troubles me most is the amount of muscle injury our players are picking up this season. May be we are all simply seeing too much into these. In the end as Lionel said it could be all down to bad luck. Then it doesn't hurt anyone to analyse whether there are any more reasons.
FC Barcelona is set to miss out on the service of Victor Valdes for a period of three to six weeks after picking up a calf injury in last night friendly. Valdes, who is easily Barca's best player on the pitch since the start of the season tore his calf muscle after starting the second half against South Africa. The game ended with a surprising defeat for the defending world champions. With Valdes missing our porous defense could be tested really badly in the coming weeks.
