Messi rests after the tour of Saudi Arabia and will not play for PSG for the French Cup

Measure efforts

.

That seems to be the premise that the coach

wants for the Argentine

after closing 2022 to the fullest with the conquest of the World Cup in Qatar and the beginning of a year in which the search to obtain the

for the first time for

it is the main objective.

For this reason, the 'Flea' from Rosario

for this Monday's match against the modest

, for the 16th of the

.

It is that the tour of Saudi Arabia and the 60 minutes that he played against the

team led by

-directed by Marcelo Gallardo- caused more wear and tear on the captain of the Argentine National Team.

It was his third match in just nine days, with the addition of the trip to Arab lands, after having returned to activity since that final on December 18 at the Lusail stadium against France.

Messi had completed the duels against

(2-0 win, scored a goal) and

(0-1 loss), both for Ligue 1. He had also rested in the previous round of the French Cup, against

.

With the title in Ligue 1 on the way, Galtier aims his cannons at the round of 16 of the

, where he was second in his group -Benfica won it from Portugal- and the draw determined that he would face

: on the 14th of February in Paris and March 8 in Germany.

Three minutes and a goal

Photo: Giuseppe CACACE / AFP.

In the resounding final duel against CR7 in Saudi Arabia, Messi needed just three minutes to score his 25th goal in a PSG jersey.

On 30 PSG attacked space, got into the area and defined first with his left foot before the departure of Mohammed Al-Owais, the goalkeeper from Saudi Arabia who suffered the Argentine again as on the day of his World Cup debut at the which Leo converted from a penalty although Argentina took their only defeat from Qatar.

Pays de Cassel, from the merger of four teams to be a rival of PSG

Beyond Messi's absence, Galtier will use other figures from his squad such as

,

as well as

,

and captain

.

Opposite will be the hitherto unknown Pays de Cassel, a regional team, which in the round of 32 eliminated

, from Ligue 2, on penalties in the last match of the second round of the integrating tournament.

After drawing 1-1 after ninety minutes with goals from Ahmed Bouzar in minute 86 for Wasquehal and Alexis Zmijak in minute 89 for Pays de Cassel, shots from eleven meters decided the fate of the clash in favor of the team that He plays in what would be the sixth division of soccer, runner-up in the world.

The Pays de Cassel, which wears the colors black and yellow, will host this Monday starting at 4:45 p.m. (Argentine time), although it moved its venue from its small field with capacity for only

to the Bollaert-Delelis stadium in the nearby town of Lens.

Cassel is in the Flanders region of northern France, near the border with Belgium.

It has many tourist attractions, with windmills.

.

The club is a

.

The footballers are semi-professionals and they achieved a dream after eliminating Wasquehal, to the point that their fans invaded the pitch to celebrate.

The madness behind the historic classification of the Pays de Casell.

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