It hasn’t lasted long Neymar on the playing fields of the Saudi league after his reappearance. In his second game after a year out, which ended with Al Hilal’s 3-0 victory over Iranian side Esteghlal in the Asian Champions League, the Brazilian was barely able to spend half an hour on the pitch, from the 58th to the 87th minute.
The Brazilian, who entered the playing field in the second half, was unable to finish the match due to some discomfort in his thigh. He had to retire to the locker room early and did so by putting his hands on the hamstrings of his right leg.
After the match, which his team won thanks to Serbian Aleksandar Mitrovic’s hat trick, the Brazilian striker went to social media to reassure his followers, who were worried about a new physical mishap for the footballer.
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«I felt like it was a cramp but very strong. I’ll have tests done and I hope it’s nothing serious. It is normal, after a year, for this to happen. The doctors had already warned me. That’s why I have to be careful and have more minutes to play,” Neymar wrote.
While waiting for a more specific diagnosis, his coach, the Portuguese Jorge Jesús, explained after the crash that the Brazilian “suffers a muscle injury. “I don’t know how long he won’t be able to train, at least two weeks.”
«Neymar is not an easy case. It shows what I thought when I made the decision to sign him for the League, because I knew and know that it won’t be easy for him. Medically his knee has healed, but then he is going to have problems like today, muscle problems because he hasn’t played for a long time. And the team’s pace is very high,” he explained. «He’s going to have muscle problems until we can rebalance him muscularly.physically. Until we do that, that’s going to happen a lot.”
His chances of attending the 2026 World Cup with Brazil will depend on the Brazilian’s ability to overcome these problems, in which he has his hopes set.
The 32-year-old former leader of the Brazilian team was seriously injured on October 17, 2023, while playing with the ‘Canarinha’ in a qualifying match for the 2026 World Cup. Against the Uruguay team he tore his cruciate ligament. and the meniscus of his left knee.
That injury occurred when had changed the French Paris Saint-Germain for the Al Hilal of the Saudi Super Leagueafter completing his signing in the month of August. He had barely played five games with his new team before being injured.
Once recovered from that mishap, Neymar reappeared on October 21, after more than a year out, in his team’s victory against Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates (5-4).
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