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Croatian international Ivan Rakittic, the player said central Barcelona team Primera Liga, the Champions League title holder, the injured teammate Lionel Messi represents an impressive blow, but at the same time give impetus to the rest of the team before hosting Bayer Leverkusen Tuesday.
Messi, injured ligaments in the knee during Barcelona win at Las Palmas last Saturday, and will miss about eight weeks, leaving the task of scoring goals for Brazilian striker Neymar and Luis Suarez of Uruguay.
It can be given the absence of Macy's also the opportunity to Munir El Haddadi and Sandro Ramirez to leave a mark with the team.
Rakittic said at a news conference Monday in response to a question about the injury Messi: "Of course affect us too much, the absence of the best player in the world is harmful but it is a motivation for us."
The Croatian international, "are confident in ourselves too and together we can do a lot."
And will pay the absence of Messi, the best player in the world four times, players Bayer Leverkusen to sigh before a playoff game.
Messi became the first player to score five goals in the Champions League in its current form, when they beat Barcelona 7-1 to the German team in the knockout round in 2012.
He said Mexican striker Javier Hernandez, he can not be happy for injury to any colleague, and insisted that his new team has a good chance to get back at least a point from the trip to Barcelona.
Barcelona tied 1-1 on the land of Roma in the opening round for the fifth set while beat Leverkusen 4-1 to BATE Borisov.
Hernandez said the newspaper Marca: "injury to any player is always a bad thing, seeing human suffering is not happy at all."
The Manchester United striker and former Real Madrid: "Health the most important thing in life."
The Barcelona has not lost at home in the Champions League, since the debacle 3-zero against Bayern Munich in May / May 2013, to be the first loss for the team at home in the last 33 games in the tournament.
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