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Lionel Messi ruled out for three weeks with fractured arm

Tests reveal that Lionel Messi fractured his arm in Barcelona's 4-2 win against Sevilla, ruling the Argentine forward out of action for the next three weeks.

By Daniel Lewis, Senior Reporter | 20 October 2018

Barcelona have confirmed that forward Lionel Messi is to miss "approximately three weeks" of action after fracturing his right arm.

The 31-year-old landed awkwardly in the opening quarter of Barca's 4-2 win over Sevilla in Saturday evening's La Liga clash.

Messi, who had earlier assisted his side's first goal of the night at Camp Nou, had to be replaced by Ousmane Dembele for the remaining 65 minutes of the match.

After undergoing tests on his damaged arm, it has been revealed that Messi suffered a fracture and will now miss next weekend's first El Clasico of the season against Real Madrid.

As well as sitting out the Madrid clash, Messi is also expected to miss Barcelona's games against Rayo Vallecano, Real Betis, Inter Milan and Cultural Leonesa in the Copa del Rey.

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	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Real Madrid	31	24	6	1	67	20	47	78
2	Barcelona	31	21	7	3	62	34	28	70
3	Girona Girona	31	20	5	6	63	39	24	65
4	Atletico Madrid Atletico	31	19	4	8	59	36	23	61
5	Athletic Bilbao	32	16	10	6	52	30	22	58
6	Real Sociedad	31	13	11	7	45	33	12	50
7	Valencia	31	13	8	10	34	32	2	47
8	Real Betis Betis	31	11	12	8	38	37	1	45
9	Villarreal	31	10	9	12	49	54	-5	39
10	Getafe	31	9	12	10	37	43	-6	39
11	Osasuna	31	11	6	14	36	44	-8	39
12	Las Palmas Las Palmas	31	10	7	14	29	35	-6	37
13	Sevilla	31	8	10	13	39	44	-5	34
14	Alaves Alaves	31	8	8	15	26	38	-12	32
15	Mallorca	31	6	13	12	25	36	-11	31
16	Rayo Vallecano	31	6	13	12	25	38	-13	31
17	Celta Vigo	31	6	10	15	33	46	-13	28
18	Cadiz Cadiz	31	4	13	14	21	41	-20	25
19	Granada	32	3	9	20	33	61	-28	18
20	Almeria	31	1	11	19	30	62	-32	14