Paris Saint-Germain confirmed on Tuesday that Nuno Mendes will be out for several weeks on the sidelines of the pre-season friendly against Le Havre. Having already lost at the end of the 2022-2023 season, the Portuguese left side risks missing out on the start of the 2023-2024 campaign.
Good news for Neymar, but bad news for Nuno Mendes. If Paris Saint-Germain announced on Tuesday that the Brazilian star would return to group training during the week, the Ile-de-France club confirmed the absence of his Portuguese team for several weeks.
Nuno Mendes was injured in the defeat at the Parc des Princes against Lorient (1-3) during the 33rd day of Ligue 1 on April 30. Nuno Mendes then suffered a “right hamstring injury” according to Paris Saint-Germain.
But this injury, in the end, was clearly more serious than expected and in itself medical point On the sidelines of the friendly match against Le Havre (Friday), the Parisian club referred to a “rupture in the tendon of the right hamstring joint” of its 21-year-old player.
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Mendes absent from the L1 resume?
UNFP’s Nuno Mendes was named Best Hope at the end of the season, missing the last five league matches with Paris Saint-Germain as well as two meetings with Portugal in June due to a muscle injury.
Above all, PSG indicated that Nuno Mendes would remain “in care” for the next few weeks which would lead to his withdrawal at the start of the 2023-2024 Ligue 1 season.
And after meeting the rookie from Le Havre, on Friday, at the Boise Training Center, Luis Enrique’s group will head to Japan to participate in a tour with matches against Al-Nasr, Cerezo Osaka, and then Inter Milan.
After this highly profitable trip to Asia, Paris will receive more than 20 million euros. Partners Kylian Mbappé and Gianluigi Donnarumma will face Lorient on the weekend of August 12, and then Toulouse during the first two days of the season in Ligue 1.
