A phenomenal bluff or scoumoune? Neymar's injury questions

• Neymar has suffered from a chondro-costal injury since the match against Montpellier at the Parc des Princes on February 1.
• Wednesday evening, Tuchel left doubt as to a tenure for his player in Dortmund when his recovery should already be over.
• Pure precaution, simple blow of bluff or real worry? It's hard to know what Paris Saint-Germain is playing as they approach the big meeting in the Champions League on Tuesday evening.

When the sage points to the ribs, the idiot looks at the foot. We turned the famous Chinese proverb a bit to our sauce because it seems to us to correspond perfectly to the case of Neymar, again injured while the 8th finals of the Champions League are looming. Yes, while supporters and journalists have continued to zyeuter on the fragile feet of the Brazilian artist, for fear of a new injury to the 5th metatarsus of which we are all today more or less specialists, it is a little higher than the mechanics bugged.

PSG number 10 suffers from a chondro-costal lesion contracted in the week following its recital at the Parc des Princes opposite Montpellier. What is a chondro-costal lesion? It is "an attack following a trauma, the area between the rib and the cartilage, which will allow to connect the rib to the sternum", explains to RMC Sport the cardiologist Alain Ducardonnet.

Eight days to forget the pain

Problem, continues the health consultant for BFM TV, "if it's a direct shock, that is to say that the rib was slightly shaken, and that the joint between the rib and the cartilage was crumpled, it takes about eight days to return to normal. "Except that it's been ten days since the club communicated on this a priori minor injury and that Wednesday evening, at the end of the temper inflicted by the Parisians in Dijon in the quarterfinal of the Coupe de France, Thomas Tuchel took everything the world of court warning that he was not 100% sure that Neymar could play against Dortmund.

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Uncertain against Lyon on Sunday - Neymar had finally withdrawn - the player was supposed to make his return to the Coupe de France against the DFCO. Yes but no. We thought then that Paris Saint-Germain had simply preferred to ensure the blow to pamper its star for the 8th final at Signal Iduna Park on February 18. Parisian communication, coupled with that of the Neymar clan (who confirmed the coach's doubts in the L'Equipe newspaper), now questions the reality of this injury.

Tuchel plays it mysterious

Therefore, two hypotheses: either the player is injured more seriously and the PSG hid it from the media, in which case we should really consider probing the cadastres of the city of Paris to find out if there was not a cemetery Indian located under the former hunting zone of the kings of France, either the PSG likes to make show the pressure to destabilize the Germans.

Because for his recovery to stretch, there would have to be a "crack or fracture of the rib", dixit Alain Ducardonnet. Except that, he continues, "generally we can see clearly on the radios, 48 ​​hours after the shock, if there have been any fracture marks. In this case, the immobilization is a little longer. We come back within two or three weeks without being able to play. Since the PSG did not say anything on this subject, we would then tend to lean towards the Martoni theory.

Personally I believe in a small poison from Tuchel on Neymar🇧🇷. It has been preserved for several days, appears to be in good shape in collective training. It's the game to build up pressure a few days before the shock, optimism 🔴🚨⚽️ #psg #Neymar

Even if, as L'Equipe reminds us, this is not too much of a house genre, Tuchel being usually rather transparent when it comes to talking about the injuries of his players. At the moment, only the club, the doctors and the player's entourage really know what it is all about. The only thing that can be said is that the player trained normally with the group on Thursday at the camp. Quite a good sign all the same. And in the worst case, a wheelbarrow of anti-inflammatory drugs sprinkled with a painkiller or two and voila.

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