Barcelona are currently preparing for La Liga restart after a long-term break due to COVID-19 pandemic. The Catalans returned to training few weeks ago but they trained without their captain Lionel Messi on Wednesday.

The Argentine international has been training alongside his teammates since the Spanish FA gave all clubs in La Liga to resume training but today, Messi was unavailable as he could only workout in the gym.

According to reports in Marca, Messi isn't carrying any form of injury or indeed feeling any discomfort but the Argentine decided to work in the gym as part of his program to guard against injury.

It is just a preventive measures against injury and it should be recalled that Messi missed the start of this season due to injury and Quique Setien is hoping to avoid such when the league restarts in few days.