Stage Set For Neymar To Prove That He Is Ballon d’Or Worthy, Without Messi And Ronaldo

A move to France by the Brazilian to win individual prizes, but yet has to been written in the history book in the way it needs to be written.

The last time in the absence of Messi and Christiano in the Champions League quarter-finals, where Neymar had celebrated his 13th Birthday just two months before that. The Brazilian who has come a long way before that.

He even won many Local or Domestic titles with clubs like Santos, Barcelona, and Paris Saint-German, and even played the Continental finals with the former 2, Neymar, who has also known the face and pain of defeat in the Champions League finals in the French outfit.

Neymar individually has won the Puskas Award, which he has bagged one of the richest contracts, which has written himself into history by making an incredible whooping swap for 222 million pounds move from Camp Nou in 2017. What he has not won as yet, however, is the Ballon d’Or, which is the game's most desired individual prize.

It's the first time since 2005, that there will be no Messi and no Ronaldo to play the center stage in the later stages of the Champions League, this gives Neymar the chance to win what he left for Paris 4 years back to achieve.

Having scored around 20 goals in 25 Champions League matches with Paris Saint-German, at least when he had the opportunity to play, Neymar made sure to thrive in it, ever since moving to Paris has been a largely of an injury heartbreak was his European Cup.

In the last 16 rounds of the 2017-2018 season, Neymar missed the second leg against Real Madrid, and both the matches against Manchester United as PSG was out a year later, Neymar was below peak fitness even for the last years Final 8 in Lisbon.

Kylian Mbappe guided PSG through against the Catalans with an intense first leg performance, with Neymar not even making the squad for the return leg in Paris, in a fixture he had been desperate to take part in it.

PSG along with Neymar did not approach the match in a good condition, where Pochettino’s side was trailing 1-0 and lost to Lille on Saturday, which leaves them 3 points behind their rivals in the title race.

“When you’re the technical leader of your team, the star, you always have a duty towards your club”.