Neymar spoke for the first time about the PSG elimination: “It's been difficult days”

This Thursday, one week after the elimination of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) from the Champions League, Neymar spoke publicly for the first time about his feelings after the 3-1 defeat against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu. Since that fall of his team, the Brazilian had barely made a few posts on social networks with his son and had avoided referring to the issue, but at the presentation of his new boots, he was asked about it.

The French team had prepared to win the contest with additions such as Sergio Ramos, Lionel Messi and Gianluigi Donnarumma, among others, but could not even make it to the quarterfinals after losing 3-2 in the overall result against the merengue team. The former Barcelona footballer came to that commitment with just enough, after a series of injuries, and played the 90 minutes in Madrid.

“These have been difficult days, complicated weeks for us. We didn't want to lose. We're not there for that, we don't program it. No one was soft for that, quite the contrary. We dedicated ourselves, we committed ourselves, we trained ourselves to look for that,” Neymar said during the event. In addition, he took the opportunity to recall his physical inconveniences: “I came back from an injury giving my life to be at that moment. As much as I would lose, but at least it would be with the team facing the slap in the face.”

In this way, Neymar was proud to have been on the field with the rest of his teammates, despite not having been able to meet the goal of advancing the round and that they were even getting 30 minutes to go, when PSG won 1-0 at the Bernabeu. But then, in a flurry of goals, Real Madrid celebrated all three goals of Karim Benzema and reversed the series.

Last weekend, Mauricio Pochettino's team played their match against Bordeaux for Ligue 1 in the Parc des Princes and the Parisian audience made themselves heard from the stands. There were boos and deafening whistles mainly for Messi, Neymar and for the coach, that's why the Brazilian recognized this Thursday that these days were “complicated”.

Last week, the man who emerged from Santos had made a brief download on social media. “Yesterday was one of the defeats that hurt me the most,” Ney wrote in a publication in which he used a black and white image of the match that Real Madrid won 3-1. While in the Instagram stories he denied the news that in the locker room he had confronted Donnarumma, who made a serious mistake that led to the draw of the white box.

“I'm sorry about yesterday, this news is unacceptable,” wrote the Azzurra goalkeeper. “We are a team and we are with you. You're still too young and you're going to win a lot. Get up and we'll go on,” the star of La Canarinha replied.

This Sunday, PSG must face Monaco as a visitor for matchday 29 of Ligue 1, a competition that they lead with 15 points ahead and which - presumably - will win in a few weeks. There were only three matches for the domestic tournament in which Pochettino's team was defeated, while they won 20 and tied just five.

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