Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar says God saved him from a fatal injury after the Ligue 1 club revealed his ankle problem wasn’t as bad.
The Brazilian attacker was stretchered from the field in tears in stoppage time of PSG’s 1-0 league defeat to Lyon after a mistimed challenge from Thiago Mendes, who was shown a red card.
Despite Neymar looking in significant pain as he was taken from the field, the French champions revealed that scans on his ankle injury have revealed a sprain rather than a fracture.
Neymar has had to battle several serious injury issues throughout his career at PSG, including separate metatarsal fractures in 2017-18 and 2018-19 that kept him absent for more than 30 matches combined.
