Sharjah24 - AFP: After being carried off with an ankle injury in his team's Ligue 1 victory over Lille on Sunday, Neymar faces a race against time to recover in time for the second leg of Paris Saint-Champions Germain's League last-16 match against Bayern Munich.
The Brazilian was in tears as he came off on a stretcher early in the second half of PSG's dramatic 4-3 victory at the Parc des Princes after turning his right ankle.
Coach Christophe Galtier said after the game that Neymar had suffered a sprain, with the club later confirming that tests had shown no fracture.
"Neymar underwent an MRI scan today after suffering a sprained ankle against Lille," said a club statement.
"This showed there was no fracture. A new assessment on the damage to the ligaments will be carried out in the next 48 hours."
Neymar had earlier scored his team's second goal in a remarkable game, with PSG leading 2-0 before finding themselves 3-2 down in the second half.
Kylian Mbappe, who had scored the opener, equalised with three minutes to go before Lionel Messi netted a 95th-minute winner from a free-kick as the Ligue 1 leaders ended a run of three straight defeats.
PSG must now hope that the 31-year-old Neymar does not face a lengthy spell on the sidelines, with a crunch Ligue 1 game away at Marseille next weekend and then the second leg against Bayern on March 8.
The French champions will head to Germany looking to overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg, when Mbappe was restricted to a second-half cameo as a substitute on his return from a thigh injury.
PSG will be looking to avoid going out of the Champions League in the last 16 for what would be the fifth time in seven seasons.
But Neymar's fitness has regularly been a cause for concern for PSG ahead of big European games ever since the world's most expensive player arrived from Barcelona in 2017.
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