The scenario seems to repeat itself for Neymar. The attacker of Paris Saint Germainwho must have surgery on his fragile right ankle, will certainly not be able to finish the season, the club announced on Monday March 6.
He will pass under the hands of the surgeon “in the coming days” in Doha (Qatar) and will be absent from the field for “three to four months”, warned PSG, two days before a decisive match at Bayern Munich.
The player “has presented several episodes of instability of the right ankle in recent years” and “the medical staff of Paris Saint-Germain recommended a ligament repair operation, in order to avoid a major risk of recurrence”, specified the capital club.
“I will come back stronger,” the Brazilian striker promised on Twitter, in a short message accompanied by an emoticon of hands folded in prayer.
His season is probably over since the 38th and last day of Ligue 1 is scheduled for June 3 and the Ligue 1 final is scheduled for June 10. He will have played only 49% of PSG’s Ligue 1 matches since his arrival (112 out of 228) and in the Champions League, he will have played 41 of the 55 matches, including Wednesday’s, a meager performance for a player from this price.
Repeated injuries
While disputing a ball with Benjamin André on February 19 against Lille in Ligue 1, “Ney”‘s ankle twisted once again. The Brazilian came out in tears. In recent days, coach Christophe Galtier had warned that his player would be absent in Munich anyway, where PSG must overturn a one-goal disadvantage on Wednesday (9:00 p.m.) to hope to qualify for the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Saturday, during the celebrations of Kylian Mbappé’s 201st Parisian goal, we saw him on the lawn on crutches, like Presnel Kimpembe, victim of a ruptured right Achilles tendon and forfeited him until the fall.
The relapse is terrible for Ney, who will again miss a major European meeting with PSG. His repeated injuries deprived him of a round of 16 second leg against Real Madrid in 2018 (hit a bone in his foot), the round of 16 the following year against Manchester United, still for a foot problem, and another eighth against Barça in 2021. This time, it was the left adductor who had dropped.
When he is not injured, the Brazilian crack takes PSG to the final in 2020, lost against Bayern (1-0), but his fragility caught up with him.
His foot had already turned at the World Cup, in the first game against Serbia. After intense care, Ney had returned but his tournament was once again finished in tears, in the quarter-finals, against Croatia (1-1, 4 tab to 2), where he had nevertheless scored a magnificent goal.
In 2014, a serious rib injury stopped him before the semi-finals, and the “Seleçao” collapsed against Germany in the memorable 7-1.
With AFP