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Copa del Rey: Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez out of Bilbao Cup trip

Updated on: 21 January,2016 07:44 AM IST  | 
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Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez will miss holders Barcelona's first-leg Copa del Rey quarter-final away to Athletic Bilbao yesterday and are absent from Luis Enrique's 18-man squad

Copa del Rey: Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez out of Bilbao Cup trip

Lionel Messi

Barcelona: Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez will miss holders Barcelona's first-leg Copa del Rey quarter-final away to Athletic Bilbao yesterday and are absent from Luis Enrique's 18-man squad.


Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi


Messi came off at half-time as Barca thrashed Athletic 6-0 in La Liga on Sunday and hasn't been risked despite scans ruling out a hamstring injury.


Suarez scored a hat-trick at the weekend, but he completes a two-game Cup ban for confronting Espanyol players in the tunnel at the end of a fiery first-leg in the previous round.

However, the Uruguayan had still been expected to travel to Bilbao with Barca's final appeal against the ban to Spain's Court of Arbitration for Sport not being held until yesterday. Defenders Jordi Alba and Jeremy Mathieu also miss out due to hamstring and calf injuries respectively.

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