Neymar OUT injured for PSG’s second leg against Barcelona after losing race to be fit for clash with former side

NEYMAR is OUT of Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League second leg against his old club Barcelona. The 29-year-old is still nursing the thigh injury that saw him miss his side’s 4-1 thrashing of Barca last month in the first leg. It was originally anticipated he would be fit to return for part II on Wednesday, but […]

NEYMAR is OUT of Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League second leg against his old club Barcelona.

The 29-year-old is still nursing the thigh injury that saw him miss his side’s 4-1 thrashing of Barca last month in the first leg.

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Neymar has failed to recover from the thigh injury and will miss his side’s second leg against old club Barcelona[/caption]

It was originally anticipated he would be fit to return for part II on Wednesday, but that dream is over.

PSG’s star forward picked up the injury during a 1-0 Coupe de France victory at Caen in February.

Boss Mauricio Pochettino was left exasperated after Neymar was replaced by Kylian Mbappe following a hefty collision on the hour-mark.

The French giants were not hopeful after the game and hospital scans confirmed their worst fears.

Neymar had a grade two tear of his left adductor.

Although the Brazilian has been involved in light training with his team-mates, the game against his former employers will come too soon.

When the injury hit, he expressed his major disappointment in a social media post where he questioned the treatment he receives from defenders.

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PSG will have to wait for their star forward to return[/caption]

Neymar wrote: “The sadness is great, the pain is immense and the crying is constant.

“Once again, I will stop for a while doing what I love the most in life, which is playing football. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable because of my style of play, because I dribble and they constantly hit me.

“I don’t know if the problem is me or what I do on the field. It saddens me a lot. It saddens me a lot to hear from a player, coach, commentator or whoever the hell it is, that ‘you really have to hit him’, ‘he falls’, ‘he cries’, ‘a child’, ‘spoiled’ etc.

“It honestly saddens me and I don’t even know how much I can bear it. I just want to be happy playing football. NOTHING ELSE.”

Just days ago Neymar hinted that he would be fit for the game posting an image of a workout to Instagram with the cryptic caption: “Loading.”

But his return to action is delayed still further.

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