There is an air of deja vu with Neymar. Two years ago, the Brazilian had a complicated start to the season, between his desires to leave PSG to return to Barcelona, performances well below his usual standards and a suspension in the Champions League for the opening of the phase. of chickens. The tea towel burns with the supporters who demand his departure.
What follows will prove them wrong. The Brazilian gradually regains his spirits and propels PSG to the final of the C1 despite a competition truncated by the covid-19. Two years later, the equation is much the same. And Neymar’s awakening finally rang against Bordeaux, Saturday, November 6.
Injured in the adductors then in lack of training after a studious summer which saw him fail in the final of the Copa America with Brazil, the 31-year-old player returned to PSG in parts. First by dragging his spleen in the press, explaining that “thehe World Cup 2022 will surely be [s]he last World Cup. I don’t think I am mentally strong enough to manage my life as a footballer any more. ”
While dragging himself across the meadow, disappearing matches as fast as he gets in. But if he has played less than half of PSG games since he arrived, the Brazilian is resilient.
10 – Neymar has received 10 assists in Ligue 1 from Kylian Mbappé since arriving in Paris in August 2017, at least 7 more than any other PSG player. Accomplices. #FCGBPSG pic.twitter.com/IggE0fhBj9
– OptaJean (@OptaJean) November 6, 2021
Two years ago, he sounded the charge at the end of September against Lyon by signing a capital match at the end of which he scored the only goal of the match. This time, the awakening was a bit late. He waited for the freshness to envelop hearts the better to warm them. After a first recall a week ago against Lille, this time he decided to spend the second.
A double to afford Bordeaux to Matmut Atlantique (3-2) but above all two class goals. On the first, the Brazilian takes advantage of a center fleeing to the left to control, come back inside and place a trick shot between Costil and his right post. On the second, it is on a new combination with the French striker, full axis this time, that the Brazilian comes to speak about his science of the game to deceive Costil. Neymar is back.