The 31-year-old player is already forfeited for the shock of the 25th day of Ligue 1, Sunday in Marseille where Paris has no room for error once morest his runner-up, only five points away. But his presence in Bavaria on March 8 is now far from guaranteed.
The press release published Tuesday by the capital club, following examinations carried out during the day, does not announce any duration of unavailability and only indicates that “a new point will be made at the beginning of next week”. But Paris, in the midst of a crisis following a catastrophic start to the year, finds itself with an additional cause for concern.
Even if the Brazilian N.10 is far from showing his usual performance since his return from the World Cup, he remains one of the main attacking assets of Christophe Galtier’s team with his 13 goals and 11 assists in the League 1 this season.
If Neymar is missing, Paris will once once more have to rely on the genius of Kylian Mbappé alone to create the feat in Germany, unless world champion Lionel Messi, who has been transparent in the game lately, wakes up.
The law of series for Neymar
This medical diagnosis is therefore not a very good omen as the Parisians must absolutely react on the lawn of Bayern Munich following their 1-0 defeat in the first leg, on February 14 at home. Elimination at this stage of the Champions League, a major objective of the Qatari owners of the club, might have serious consequences for the future of Christophe Galtier and football adviser Luis Campos, extremely weakened by the current situation.
This injury to Neymar also brings back dark memories at PSG, which often had to manage without the ex-prodigy of Santos for high-stakes matches in C1. Neymar had thus injured his foot before an 8th final return of the Champions League once morest Real Madrid in 2018.
In 2019, “Ney” had given up a double confrontation in C1 once morest Manchester United and in 2021, he was injured once more, in the left adductor, before a duel once morest his former club, FC Barcelona, still in 8th.
Since arriving in Paris in 2017, Neymar has missed 86 games due to physical glitches.
“It’s not bad luck, there are always reasons: the calendar, the sequence of matches … It complicates things, you have to round your back”, had dropped, fatalistic, Galtier regarding the Brazilian , Sunday following the miraculous success won once morest Lille (4-3).
Only small thinning on the side of the PSG infirmary before the big deadlines to come: the Portuguese defender Nuno Mendes, touched in the knee once morest Lille on Sunday, “will resume training this week”, according to the club.
