Brazil's Neymar was knocked out of Singapore's national stadium on Sunday, just 12 minutes after the friendly in Nigeria's 1-1 draw with his left thigh.
The symptoms began with the Paris Saint-Germain star in the eighth minute when his thigh muscle sensed, following a quick run.
He was unable to complete the match and was replaced by Philippe Coutinho after five minutes.
Sitting on the bench, the medical team put the ice on the back muscle of the striker's thigh, who made his 101st appearance for Seleção.
The injury threatens the player's return to the Champions League with his French team at home to Club Brugge on 22 January. He missed the start of the season and did not return to the Paris Club until mid-September, first because of the injury that kept him away from his country. In the Copa America, which won the title "Selisao" in July, and then because of his desire to return to his former team Barcelona, Spain without succeeding in achieving his goal.
Although Neymar was there, as was the case in Thursday's match against Senegal in Singapore, or without him, Celisao continued his modest results recently as he did not win the four games that followed his Copa America at home at the expense of Peru (3). 1 on July 7).
Tete's men drew after the continental friendly with Colombia 2-2 and then suffered a defeat by Peru (zero -1) on September 10, the first in a series of 17 unbeaten games since the loss of the World Cup Russia 2018 quarter-final against Belgium 1-2, Before Thursday's draw in Singapore with Senegal 1-1 and Sunday with Nigeria with the same result.
In spite of the field advantage against the "excellent Eagles" and the opportunities obtained, especially through Gabriel Jesus or Firmino, the African team started scoring in the 35th minute with a great goal for Joe Arribo, who arrived the ball inside the area with a pass from Moses Simon, and manipulated the skillful Marcinius before shooting in Goalkeeper Ederson.
The result remained unchanged until the end of the first half, but Tete's men were beaten hard from the start and managed to equalize after the ball reached Casemiro after a header from Marcinius bounced off the crossbar, followed by Real Madrid midfielder Francis Osoho, who was later injured and replaced Madoka Okoye.
Despite Titi's substitutions for Richarlison, Fabinho, Gabriel Prabruza and Lucas Paqueta, Brazil were unable to reach Nigeria in the remaining minutes, failing to win the fourth game in a row.