Operated on the ankle, Neymar once again misses the end of the season with PSG – Liberation

Hit in the ankle in mid-February, number 10 will be operated on in the coming days in Qatar. He will be out for three to four months.

It is unclear whether PSG will see the quarter-finals of the Champions League this year or if they will suffer another premature elimination in Europe’s premier club competition. But what is certain is that Neymar will once again be deprived of it. In a statement published on Monday, the club confirms Neymar’s package for the next three to four months. The time for the attacker to have surgery at the ASPETAR hospital in Doha (Qatar), then to recover from this surgery.

On February 19 in Lille, the Brazilian striker was injured, the fault of a contact with the Lille midfielder Benjamin André and a too fragile ankle which had turned violently. Like a feeling of deja vu for those who have had a string of injuries since their arrival in the capital. PSG recalls that Neymar has “experienced several episodes of right ankle instability in recent years”. And this one seems to be one too many, thus requiring a “ligament repair operation to avoid a major risk of recurrence”.

Bad memories

Hot, despite the images of number 10 in tears, evacuated on a stretcher, his club continued to hope to see his player on the field in Germany during the knockout round of the Champions League against Bayern Munich. Two weeks later, optimism is definitely buried: Neymar will not play in Germany. Nor will he drive back the lawns of Ligue 1 before the summer, his season being simply over.

This long unavailability of Neymar brings back bad memories at PSG, which has already been often deprived of the Brazilian in the past due to injury before major deadlines. He had thus injured his foot before a 1/8 final return of the Champions League against Real Madrid in 2018. In 2019, “Ney” had missed the 1/8 of C1 against Manchester United and in 2021, he was injured again, in the left adductor, before a duel against his former club, FC Barcelona, ​​​​still at this stage of the competition.