PSG players Neymar, Giovani Lo Celso, Angel Di Maria and Lucas Moura during a training session at Ooredoo Camp, Saint Germain-En-Laye, France on Thursday.
Paris: Neymar will miss Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 game at Montpellier today after the world’s most expensive player injured his right foot, French media report.
The Brazilian striker has made an immediate impact at his new club with four goals and four assists from his first five outings since moving to the French capital from Barcelona.
According to Radio RMC yesterday, the injury does not throw into doubt Neymar’s participation in Wednesday’s Champions League clash against Bayern Munich.
Neymar posted a photo of his injured right foot on Snapchat.
PSG have been in irresistible form and lead reigning champions Monaco by three points at the top of the early table.
However, Spaniard Unai Emery may opt to make some changes for the trip to Montpellier with Wednesday’s Champions League clash against Bayern Munich in mind.
Monaco kick off the weekend action with a trip to Marcelo Bielsa’s struggling Lille.
Leonardo Jardim’s principality outfit bounced back from a shock 4-0 thrashing at Nice by seeing off Strasbourg 3-0 last week, with Radamel Falcao’s brace taking him to nine league goals for the season already.
Monaco welcome Porto to the Stade Louis II in the Champions League on Tuesday, but Jardim ruled out making wholesale changes.
“My message doesn’t change: the next match is the most important,” he said.
“It’s not possible for a player to save himself for the Champions League. If he does, he could also miss out on that match.”
But Lille have had a terrible start to the season after Bielsa’s arrival and are on a five-match winless run since beating Nantes in their opening game.
The Argentinian coach abruptly resigned as Marseille coach after their first game of the season in 2015, but vehemently insisted there would be no repeat at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
“I will not resign, I will not give up for any reason,” the enigmatic Bielsa said.
“The only way for me to stop working here is for me to be dismissed from office, which does not depend on me.”
On Sunday, Marseille host Toulouse hoping to build on back-to-back wins over Amiens last weekend and against Konyaspor in the Europa League.
OM though have been charged by UEFA for crowd trouble during the 1-0 victory in their group-stage opener, after objects were thrown on the pitch and fireworks were let off in the stands.B ordeaux, one of only two remaining unbeaten sides along with PSG, play a home match against Guingamp, while third-placed Saint-Etienne face Rennes.
