Barcelona's Lionel Messi suffers hamstring injury recurrence

            

Lionel Messi could miss the rest of Barcelona's season after suffering a recurrence of a hamstring injury in the 2-1 win against Atletico Madrid.

The 25-year-old Argentina forward will have tests on the injury on Monday.
Messi has struggled to regain full fitness since straining his hamstring during a Champions League match against Paris St-Germain in April.
"He was bothered in the same area. He felt a strange sensation," said Barca boss Tito Vilanova of Messi's injury.

Vilanova added that Monday's tests should reveal if the forward is to be out for "days or weeks".

Barcelona's final game of the season is at home to Malaga on 31 May, with another league match against Espanyol to come before then.
The Catalans had already secured the La Liga title ahead of kick-off against Atletico Madrid courtesy of Real Madrid's failure to beat Espanyol on Saturday.
The new champions trailed 1-0 on Sunday when Messi was forced off in the 67th minute, leaving his side to play the rest of the match with 10 men as all three substitutes had already been used.
His team-mates fought their way back to win in his absence through Alexis Sanchez's strike and Gabi's own goal.
After coming off the bench to kick-start Barcelona in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-final against PSG on 10 April, Messi was left on the bench for the second leg of the semi-final against Bayern Munich with Vilanova deciding it was too risky to play him in pursuit of a 4-0 deficit.
Messi has scored 46 league goals this season - just four short of matching last season's record-breaking tally.