Messi misses Barca match 'for baby's birth'

BARCELONA - Lionel Messi has pulled out of Barcelona's squad for Saturday's La Liga match at Malaga with reports saying the birth of his third child is imminent. 
The club tweeted: "Change to the squad. Messi is out for personal reasons and Yerry Mina takes his place." 
Messi's wife Antonella Roccuzzo is expecting a boy, a brother to five-year-old Thiago and Mateo, who is two. The child is expected to be called Ciro. 

The Argentinian couple, both 30, first met as children in 1996. Their relationship began a decade later. 
Barcelona, who face Chelsea in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie at the Camp Nou on Wednesday, have an eight-point lead over Atletico Madrid at the top of La Liga.