Neymar Suffers Serious Knee Injury: Leaves Stadium on Crutches

Striker Neymar left the Centenário stadium in Montevideo on crutches after Suffer serious injury to your left knee. He suffered a sprain at the end of the first half of Brazil’s 2-0 defeat to Uruguay and was substituted in the 48th minute. The number 10 left the field on a stretcher, crying.

After injury, Neymar leaves the stadium on crutches in Montevideo

The attacker will return to Brazil and undergo tests in São Paulo, this Wednesday, for a more detailed diagnosis of the injury. The team’s doctor, Rodrigo Lasmar, reiterated that it is necessary to wait for the results of the tests to find out if the ligaments were affected.

— We did all the tests. These tests will be repeated tomorrow (Wednesday). These 24 hours will be important to see how the knee will respond, the swelling it will present and the imaging tests that will define a definitive diagnosis. It’s too early to say (if it’s a ligament injury). Let’s wait for the exams calmly, evaluate calmly, and as soon as we have a definition we will tell you.

Neymar is injured and leaves the field on a stretcher

Neymar collided with Uruguay midfielder De La Cruz and felt pain in his knee after twisting it when he stepped onto the pitch. After being taken off the field on a stretcher, Neymar went to the stadium’s dressing room carried by the Brazilian team’s doctors, without being able to put his foot on the ground.

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Neymar’s injury occurred minutes after Darwin Núñez’s goal, which opened the scoring at the Estadio Centenário in Montevideo for the Uruguayan team. The Brazilian team was defeated 2-0 — De La Cruz scored the second Uruguayan goal. Brazil lost an unbeaten run of 37 games in the Qualifiers.

Neymar recently returned from a serious injury to the ligaments in his right ankle, which left him six months away from the field in official games, between March and September this year.

The last time the number 10 was substituted in the first half in a game for the Brazilian team was in October 2019, against Nigeria, when he left the field after 11 minutes. According to a survey of the ge, This is the attacker’s first knee injury. See the infographic below.

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2023-10-18 03:07:53
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