Ligue 1: Lionel Messi package for OL – PSG, Angel Di Maria and Gianluigi Donnarumma also unavailable

It was predictable. Affected by the Covid during the truce, Lionel Messi will not participate in the meeting between Lyon and PSG on Sunday evening. The capital club confirmed its withdrawal in a statement released on Saturday. The Argentinian, tested negative in recent days, had not resumed collective training with the group of Mauricio Pochettino. He “will continue its post-Covid individual recovery protocol over the next few days“, according to the medical point of PSG.

Messi will not be the only one to be lacking in the Parisian ranks for this trip. Angel Di Maria, Julian Draxler, Danilo Pereira, Layvin Kurzawa and Gianluigi Donnarumma, still in isolation after being also affected by Covid-19, will also be absent in the Rhône. Paris must also do without the services of Achraf Hakimi, Abdou Diallo and Idrissa Gueye, selected for selection to participate in the African Cup of Nations which begins Sunday in Cameroon.

Finally, PSG specifies that Neymar, hit in the left ankle, is still in care and that his return to training is planned “in about three weeks“. The Brazilian could thus be able to participate in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Real Madrid. Paris will approach its match in Lyon as leader of the French championship with ten lengths ahead of Marseille, provisionally second after his success in Bordeaux on Friday (0-1).