By Daily sports on February 12, 2021

Neymar will miss the first leg of Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League round of 16 tie against his former club Barcelona due to a groin issue, the French club said Thursday.

Brazil forward suffered the injury in PSG’s 1-0 win against Caen in the last 64 of the French Cup on Wednesday, ruling him out of the game in Spain on February 16.

“After analysis of clinical exams and scans, it is expected that he’ll be out for around four weeks depending on the evolution of the injury,” PSG said in a statement.

The club is hopeful he could return for the second leg in France on March 10.

“The sadness is great, the pain is immense and the crying is constant,” Neymar wrote on Instagram.

“Once again, for a while, I will stop doing what I love most in life, which is playing football.

“Sometimes I feel uncomfortable because of my style of play because I dribble and constantly get fouled, I don’t know if the problem is me or what I do on the pitch.”

Neymar also hit back at comments made by Caen coach Pascal Dupraz following the match, who accused him of “crying”.

“It makes me sad to hear from a player, coach, commentator… ‘He falls, falls, he cries, he’s a kid, spoiled etc’,” he added.

“Honestly it saddens me and I don’t know how long I can take it, I just want to be happy playing football. THAT’S IT.” (AFP)

•PHOTO: Neymar during the French Cup round-of-64 football match between Stade Malherbe Caen and Paris Saint-Germain.

Source Daily sports

Posted February 12, 2021

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