Adam Muirhead
On the fourth of March during PSG’s 3-0 win over Marseille, the Brazilian superstar Neymar cracked the fifth metatarsal in his right foot. Neymar was taken off, in tears, on a stretcher.
With PSG fourteen points clear at the top of Ligue 1 with eleven games remaining, Neymar’s absence will not affect their title hopes but losing him for the second leg of the Champions League round of sixteen match against Real Madrid is a massive blow for the Parisians. Neymar travelled to Brazil with his father to undergo surgery.
“Neymar will not be playing again until April at the very earliest” says PSG manager Unai Emery.
All nations competing in the World Cup have to submit their 30 man preliminary squad to FIFA in the middle of May before the nations reduce the squad of players to 23 at the beginning of June. The Brazilian doctor has said Neymar will be out of action for a minimum of three months – leaving little margin of error before June’s World Cup in Qatar. Neymar is Brazil’s main man and current captain and so, with him gone, it would dampen Brazil’s hopes to win their first World Cup since 2002.
Brazil’s first match is against Switzerland in the Rostov Arena on the seventeenth of June. Whether Neymar will be there remains to be seen.
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