Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and tonight many fans will definitely sit around the TV with their families to watch the annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala, which is also part of the Spring Festival. However, tomorrow at 4:15 a.m. Beijing time, Paris will face Nice at home to compete for a place in the quarter-finals of the French Cup, a match that is certainly worthy of Chinese fans, because Messi will definitely play. Before the match, Messi posted on his personal social media: "I will use wonderful goals to express my best wishes to you!" Happy New Year to our Chinese friends! ”
Nice is currently in second place in the Ligue 1 table, and in the pre-match press conference, when faced with the question of "whether the team has the opportunity to challenge the leader Paris", Nice coach Garti bluntly said: "This idea is wrong. Now the gap between us and Paris Saint-Germain is huge. However, he also admitted that if he wants to win the French Cup, he must beat Paris. Galti also said he would use the best squad against Paris.
However, the Paris side should not be able to send the best team, because Neymar is injured, and there are many other main players with the national team to participate in the South American World Preliminary Round (including Di Maria). The leak in the house coincided with continuous rain, but Ramos had a muscle strain in the first two days of training, and there was news that Ramos might not be able to play tomorrow morning. Of course, the focus of fans' attention tomorrow morning is still Messi. Messi's health has been greatly affected by the new crown infection, so he did not play with Argentina in the two recent World Cup preliminaries against Chile and Colombia. However, three days ago, Argentina still beat Chile 2-1, showing great strength, and Messi was of course particularly pleased with this.
Messi has only scored 1 goal in Ligue 1 at present, especially after the infection with the new crown, Messi has not scored this year, in the absence of a major general, Messi's role will be more significant tomorrow morning, and it is very likely to help Paris reach the top 8 of the French Cup by scoring goals. Speaking at the pre-match press conference, manager Pochettino said: "I am very satisfied with Messi's performance in training this week, he has performed well in training and is in good shape. He and Kylian Mbappe have been great, great from the time they first met, they are two very good players. ”
If Messi scores tomorrow morning, it will be the first goal he scored in 2022, and if divided by Chinese lunar time, it will also be Messi scoring on the first day of the Year of the Tiger, no wonder Messi attaches so much importance to Tomorrow Morning's goal - he cares too much about the feelings of Chinese fans.