Why Neymar’s latest injury at PSG comes at worst possible time for him
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At least he’s really familiar with the place now. Once again, as has happened so often since he moved from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2017, Neymar will travel to Doha, Qatar, to rehab his left ankle injury at the Aspetar clinic. It is the sixth time in the past four years that he has suffered an injury that requires so much specialist treatment and attention (hence going to Aspetar) and will keep him out for a number of weeks.
This time, the incident that did it was one of bad luck. During Sunday’s 3-1 win at Saint-Etienne, defender Yvann Macon went for a tackle, missing both Neymar and the ball, but the Brazil forward stepped on Macon’s ankle and twisted his own in the process. The ankle ligament has been damaged, and he’ll be sidelined for up to eight weeks.
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Neymar’s injury issues are well-documented. The first two were serious as he suffered metatarsal fractures in his right foot; the first one in February 2018, barely six months after arriving in Paris, ended his season (he missed 16 games in total), while the second one a year later, in January of 2019, saw him miss another 19 games, recovering to play a part in the final three weeks of the campaign. A year ago, Neymar injured his left ankle, missing five weeks and five games for that one. He was out of action for two months and nine matches when he hurt his groin in February 2021, and before that, he’d torn right ankle ligaments playing for Brazil, which kept him out for three months (June-September 2019).
In total, if you add these injuries along with all the assorted minor niggles, Neymar has missed 91 matches for PSG so far. It’s always been a talking point, especially for a player who was rarely injured in the four years he spent at the Camp Nou, during which he only missed 29 games.
So what’s happened? For a start, he’s getting older. Neymar turns 30 in February and considering he started playing…
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