Neymar will not be able to measure himself against Barça in Paris either.

The Brazilian does not appear in the call-up of Paris Saint-Germain for the second leg of the second round of the Champions League to be played against the Barça team, in which the Gauls will defend the 1-4 achieved at the Camp Nou.

The attacker, the most expensive player in history, "returned to training last week but will continue his individual recovery work," the club said in its medical bulletin, in which it did not give further details.

The return of Ney, injured on February 10, seemed possible for the decisive duel against Barcelona, ​​but the club has finally preferred not to risk.

The 29-year-old will thus miss another decisive duel in the Champions League round of 16 due to injury.

The Brazilian has only participated in three of the eight possible since he arrived at the French club in 2017.

Neymar suffered a left adductor injury in the Cup match against modest Caen and the club set his recovery period at one month, which placed the return of the round of 16 to the limit of it.

This Sunday, the player completed the training normally with his teammates, which suggested that he would be at the disposal of the coach,

Mauricio Pochettino

, for the duel against Barcelona, ​​the team that brought him to Europe.

But finally the club has opted for prudence and Neymar will continue without facing the team that signed him in 2013, with which he won a Champions League (2015) and that he left in 2017 to sign for PSG in exchange for 222 million euros.

10 injuries with PSG

Without him in the team, PSG have achieved five victories, including at Camp Nou, and a loss in the Parc des Princes to

Monaco

, which keeps them second in the French league, two points behind Lille.

Since his arrival in Paris, Neymar has suffered

10 serious injuries

, which have led him to miss almost a third of the matches in which he could have participated.

Many of them important, such as the return of the knockout stages of the Champions League against

Real Madrid

in its first season and the two duels of that same phase against

Manchester United

the following year.

That summer he expressed his desire to leave PSG to return to Barcelona, ​​but the Catalan club did not put on the table an offer considered sufficient by the Qatari owners of the French entity, so he stayed in the French capital.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • sports

  • football

Champions League Atlético move to Bucharest to play their duel against Chelsea

Champions Dear Leipzig, thank you very much for your generosity

Champions League 2020 - 2021 De Jong gives a thread of life to a Sevilla attacked by a superb Haaland

See links of interest

  • 2021 business calendar

  • Alcorcón - Mirandés

  • Chelsea - Everton

  • Internazionale - Atalanta

  • Real Betis - Alaves

  • Lugo - Fuenlabrada