With most of the Premier League pausing again for a weekend of FA Cup matches, the top televised games from Europe will come from Spain, where Barcelona will be without talisman Lionel Messi, and France, where a streaking Paris Saint-Germain could fall from first to third in the Ligue 1 table without a win Friday.
La Liga: Barcelona (10-4-4) expects to be missing Messi, its captain and leading scorer, when it returns to league play at relegation-endangered Eiche (3-6-8) on Sunday (BeIN Sports, 7 a.m. PT). Messi was given a red card late in Barcelona’s stoppage-time loss to Athletic Club in Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup final for a foul the Royal Spanish Football Federation decided was worthy of a two-game suspension.