Tears and a stretcher exit in the 51st minute. Scorer in the first period, Neymar injured his right ankle this Sunday during the stunning victory of Paris Saint-Germain over Lille, this Sunday in Ligue 1 (4-3). “Neymar had an MRI today. This does not reveal a fracture. A new ligament assessment will be carried out in 48 hours, ”announced PSG at the start of the evening.
The right ankle of “Ney” – the same one which had been affected during the World Cup in Qatar – turned sharply on a ball disputed with Lille Benjamin André. Around him on the pitch, his teammates immediately called for the trainers with worried gestures. This blow for the Brazilian comes just over two weeks before the round of 16 return of the Champions League from Paris SG against Bayern Munich in Germany on March 8.
“It’s not bad luck, there are always reasons: the calendar, the sequence of matches… It complicates things, you have to bend your back, but a bent back with a victory is more pleasant” , explained his trainer, Christophe Galtier.
“Not too serious” a priori for Nuno Mendes
This injury brings back bad memories for PSG, which has already been deprived of Neymar in the past for high-stakes matches in C1, in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
Left-back Nuno Mendes also came out early (31st), replaced by Juan Bernat. For the Portuguese, it is a “small distension of the internal ligament of the right knee”, according to PSG. “It doesn’t seem too bad to me,” Galtier said.
