In a game that began with the smell of a landslide in favor of PSG against Lille for date 24 of Ligue 1the Parisian team at times lived a nightmare playing at home and on top of that had the injury of one of its top figures, neymar, who at the beginning of the complement had to leave the field of play due to discomfort in his right ankle. In the afternoon, the club confirmed his diagnosis and clarified why there will be a new control in 48 hours.
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“Neymar, ankle sprain victim during the match against Lille, he underwent an MRI today. This does not reveal a fracture. A new evaluation of the ligament will be carried out in 48 hours”reported the statement issued by the Parisian entity.
The status of the Portuguese was also reported nuno mendes: “Also affected during the match against Lille, Nuno Mendes suffered a small strain on the internal ligament of his right knee. A new evaluation will be carried out in 48 hours.”
It was at minute 47 when the Brazilian went to play a ball with Benjamin Andre, which hit the striker who sprained his ankle when he fell and was left lying on the floor. There Ney began to manifest pain in the injured area.
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The PSG doctors entered and assisted Ney, who had to be replaced by Hugo Ekitike. This scenario set off alarm bells in the team Lionel Messi, kylian mbappe and company ahead of the return match with Bayern Munich for the round of 16 of the Champions League. It will be on March 8 and the French team will have to overcome the 0-1 loss suffered last Tuesday.
It should be remembered that Neymar had just sprained that same ankle in his team’s debut match at the Qatar 2022 World Cup on the first date of group G, which was a 2-0 win against Serbia on November 24. That day the Brazilian star was the Scratch footballer who suffered the most fouls. The gunner then showed photos of how his ankle was left and that image impacted his fans. He was absent and reappeared against Croatia, a match in which he scored a great goal.
The striker who emerged from Santos was one of the figures of his team and scored the second goal after a good team play. At that moment the local team was superior and it seemed that it was going to resolve the match without urgency.
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He opened the scoring with a great goal from Mbappé who put two bicycles inside the area, then a pipe and defined with precision. Then Neymar widened the differences.
Although Lille caused concern and changed the mood of the local public since they turned the result around with goals from Bafode Diakite, Jonathan David (penalty) and Jonathan Bamba.
PSG did not give up and its offensive pillars allowed it to achieve an agonizing victory. First was mbappe that at 87 minutes he achieved equality. And in added time Messi generated a free kick on the edge of the area and had a free kick in his favour. The best player in the world executed it and his precision managed to get the ball through the barrier, hit the post and ended up getting the fourth goal that gave victory to the team led by Christopher Galtierwho joined the celebration and went to hug the Argentine star.
With this victory, PSG remains at the top of the championship with 57 points and leads Olympique de Marseille on 8, which will visit Toulouse this Sunday at the end of the day.
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