The Centre Circle

Bad news for Barcelona, good news for Arsenal. Zlatan Ibrahimovic picked up a calf strain in the warm up for yesterday evening’s game versus Athletic Bilbao and it has been confirmed that the injury will rule him out of the second leg Champions League quarter final tie against  Arsenal on Tuesday night. Ibrahimovic, who was due to start Saturday night’s game, scored both goals at the Emirates Stadium last Wednesday and has been in fantastic form of late. He may also miss El Classico next weekend when Barcelona play their deadly rivals Real Madrid.

This is a big blow for Barcelona who may replace him for the Arsenal and Real Madrid games with Henry or maybe Bojan who scored twice tonight in place of the Swedish international. The other scorers were Jeffren and the inevitable goal from Messi in an easy 4-1 win over Athletic at the Camp Nou.

Goals from Saturday’s 4-1 win for Barcelona against Bilbao below – sorry they don’t have English commentary…