It appears that the pressure may be getting to Lionel Messi after he threw up in the tunnel ahead of Barcelona’s weekend game against Athletic Bilbao.

The Blaugrana are enduring a difficult campaign, having lost the Copa Del Rey final to arch rivals Real Madrid and slipping out of the Champions League, the side slipped further behind the title race with back-to-back defeats in La Liga.

Messi in particular has come in for some serious criticism over the course of the campaign, and before he scored a spectacular effort to rescue all three points, he was caught suffering through a moment of weakness in the tunnel where he hid away to throw up as the players walked out onto the pitch.<>