- Despite his goal, Neymar failed to shine as much as usual against Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday evening.
- In lack of freshness after more than two weeks without playing, the Brazilian has shown his disagreement with Thomas Tuchel about the management of his playing time.
We were a little disappointed - bordering on anger - when, after asking him a question in Spanish, Neymar mumbled three little words in Portuguese. Between the lines, it simply meant "I don't want to talk to you, thank you, good evening." End of the story ? On the contrary! If Neymar sent us in pairs, it was because he had already said what he had to say to the RMC cameras a few minutes earlier.
As we know, a Neymar at the top of his form can alone make opposing teams dance, but it is necessarily more difficult when we have not played for more than two weeks. Which was the case of the former Barcelonese Tuesday evening. Put in formaldehyde after his rib injury against Montpellier on February 1, the Brazilian had not played a minute before this meeting of the Champions League in Dortmund. A decision taken in agreement with the technical and medical staff? Not really.
The physical difference between the two teams was damn glaring, both in pace and impact.
And our staff who did not want to play Neymar in case, big failure, it grows like a hamster as soon as it does not play and we found the player from November.
" I did not like "
“It was not my choice, it was the club and the doctors who made this decision. We talked a lot. I did not like. I wanted to play, I felt good. The club was afraid and it fell on me. Aouch… We imagine that Leonardo had not yet learned of the rant of his player when he passed in front of the press in the mixed zone to join the bus of Parisians. Her broad smile would then probably have lost some of her radiance.
Sounded by its non-match in the Ruhr, PSG would have gone well from this outing to the sulphate of its star player. However, we will have to live with it. And our little finger tells us that it will not necessarily be easy for the sporting director, who invited French journalists a few days before to "get out of this negativity" as the final phase of the Champions League approaches.
🗣💬 "Difficult to stay 4 games without playing. Not my choice, the club made this decision with the doctors. We talked a lot, I didn't like ..."
Neymar attacks PSG on the management of his injury after the match against Dortmund #BVBPSG pic.twitter.com/DyS84hIUsd
Fortunately for Leo, Neymar quickly recovered. "I understand the fear, I understand that the club is suffering because in two years I found myself out of the knockout stages. I respect the decisions, but it can't be like that because the player ends up suffering. It was very difficult to be able to play an intense match like this for 90 minutes without stopping. If I was in better shape, I would certainly have made a better match. "
Therefore, a question: wanting at all costs to protect his player for this match against Borussia Dortmund, Thomas Tuchel and his staff have they pushed the plug too far? And shouldn't the Brazilian have been frolicking, just for half a time in Amiens last Sunday? This is in any case what the player had claimed, according to information revealed by L'Equipe the day after the 4-4 in Picardy.
Inevitably repercussions
In any case, one would have to be very naive to believe that Neymar's remarks will have no consequences on the life of the club until the return match against the Germans on March 11. When your 222 million gondola head tackles the coach in public and spreads out what is going on behind the scenes in broad daylight, it is not a flash in the pan but a fire like Australia.
It is therefore to be expected that, even more than usual, the next Parisian declarations will be analyzed from all angles. The only reason for hope in all of this is that neither Tuchel nor Neymar has an interest in PSG making it out in the knockout stages of C1 this season. In difficult times, you have to hang on to something.
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