The Santos duel against CRB, this Thursday (22), at 21h30 (Brasília), at Rei Pelé Stadium, in Maceió, can mark Neymar’s return to the pitch after more than a month away from injury.
The shirt 10 and should start the game, valid for the third phase of the Brazilian Cup, in the reserve bench.
If Neymar enters the field, he will complete 30 games-including tickets for PSG, Al-Hilal and Santos-since his performance at Qatar’s World Cup.
In December 2022, the midfielder scored in a 1-1 draw with Croatia, for the quarterfinals, a confrontation in which Brazil was eliminated on penalties.
Neymar numbers from Cup
Since the last World Cup, more specifically in the last 30 months, Neymar has had a low average games, either by the Brazilian team or for clubs.
During this period, the Brazilian star played about 12 games a year. That is, an average of one game per month.
Arabia, returns to Santos and serious injury
It is worth remembering that since the World Cup with the Brazilian team, Neymar exchanged team twice and suffered a serious left knee injury that took him from the lawns for a year.
The incident took place in October 2023, in the duel between Brazil and Uruguay, in Montevideo, for the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. Neymar underwent surgery and.
Before injury, the star changed Paris Saint-Germain for Al-Hilal in August 2023. Because of the injury, he ended up playing only 7 games for the Arab club, 4 as a starter, and scored only one goal.
After returning to the lawns in October 2024, and decided to return to Santos in January 2025.
For the fish, the attacker got a sequence of games before feeling muscle discomfort. The injury caused him to be cut from the national team in his first call since surgery in 2023.
Neymar was more than a month out and returned against Fluminense in early April for the Brazilian Championship. In the next game, against Atletico-MG, Neymar was injured again and.
With his likely return on Thursday, against CRB, Neymar lives the expectation of continuing to defend the fish in the few games that remains until the end of his contract, as a possible renewal follows in the waiting compass.
Neymar from 2022 Cup
- Santos: 9 games, 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses
- Al-Hilal: 7 games, 5 wins and 2 draws
- PSG: 9 games, 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses
- Brazilian team: 4 games, 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss
