Ivan Rakitic says Barcelona need to pull together after discovering that captain Lionel Messi will miss the next three weeks with injury.
The Argentine’s injury is ill-timed with important fixtures on the horizon, and Rakitic says it’s time the team pulled together in the absence of their influential skipper.
“We’re not happy, but that’s football. He had the bad luck to hurt himself trying to support his fall and we saw quickly it didn’t look good.
“Now we have to pull together, show that without Leo the team can move forward and wish him a quick recovery.