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Neymar after a match vs Bayern

NOTORIOUS ABSENCE FOR PSG

Neymar, out again before a key event in the Champions League

Published:6/03/2023 - 19:44h

Updated:6/03/2023 - 19:45h

Neymar Jr. continues to experience a real ordeal due to injuries since his arrival at PSG. Only in the 2019/20 season could he be with the Parisians throughout the knockout phase

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Neymar Jr. It has gone back to fall owing to physical problems to few days of a meeting of vital importance in the season. Of this way, repeats a dangerous tendency in the case of the Brazilian, that does not finish to justify the investment of 222 million euros that in his moment did the Parisian team, paying the amount fixed in his clause of rescission with the FC Barcelona at the end of the course 2016/17.

The only exception to this stormy cycle of Neymar Jr. In the PSG traces back to the season 2019/20. In that then, after a prolonged interruption in front of the sanitary crisis, the UEFA determined that the eight better teams would measure in Lisbon to enclosed doors. It would be then when the international with the 'Canarinha' would sign his best campaign in Champions with the French, reaching the final of the event, where would fall by the minimum in front of the Bayern of Munich.

Neymar, 'KO' of face to transcendental parties

From the arrival of the cataríes to the group of the French capital, the big aim has been to win the League of Champions and with the signing of Neymar looked for to direct definitively to such attainment. However in his first season with the PSG, an injury would separate him of the eliminatory in front of the Real Madrid, in which finally they would be the whites those who would advance to the quarter-finals and eventualmente would obtain his orejona number 13.

For the season 2018/19, the rival of the Parisians would be the Manchester United. The French, again without the '10' in the field owing to an injury, would give a hit of authority when imposing by 0-2 in Old Trafford. Any team in the history of the competition had traced back such deficit in an eliminatory. But a 1-3 in the Park of the Princes would precipitate again the catastrophe.

After the stray final in Lisbon, the PSG looked for to claim and arrived to the round of 16 in the edition 2020/21 with thirst of revancha after being matched with the FC Barcelona. The Frenchmen did not forget the 6-1 in the Camp Nou after a 4-0 in the City Luz, casually with Neymar like protagonist. But the Brazilian would be the big absent in the eliminatory. Kylian Mbappé Would be the hangman of the culés in the City Condal with a 'hat-trick' that put the 1-4. The turn, again without 'Ney' would finish with a 1-1 and the ones of Koeman sacked of the contest.

But Neymar would follow living 'the day of the marmot'. This time in the season 2021/22. The rival in the eighth of final would be the Real Madrid. A goal of Mbappé would mark the difference in the gone, where the Frenchmen won by 1-0, although it could be wider the difference if Lionel Messi had not failed a penalti. Neymar Would return for the turn, but only by few minutes. In the Bernabéu, the merengues would trace back the eliminatory with a 3-1 and cimentarían the way to his Champions number 14.