PSG: Neymar, his 100 matches with Paris under the microscope

Neymar is a hundred years old.

Since last Friday and the great success of PSG against Montpellier (4-0), the Brazilian has reached this symbolic total of 100 matches in red and blue.

A hundredth appearance celebrated with the second goal of the match, his 81st since his arrival in the capital in August 2017. The opportunity to take stock of the Brazilian's exceptional performance.

An impressive ratio

100 matches, 81 goals in all competitions.

The calculation is easy: the number 10 turns at 0.81 average achievement per game.

He has the third best ratio in the history of PSG behind Carlos Bianchi (0.88 goal / match) and Zlatan Ibrahimovic (0.86).

In detail, Neymar has scored 51 times in Ligue 1 (60 games), 21 times in the Champions League (25 games) and 9 times in the national cups (15 games).

The only downside: he only scored two goals in European knockout matches.

It was against Borussia Dortmund in the last Champions League campaign.

The former Barça is more effective in the national finals with three goals at the last stage of the Coupe de France or the Champions Trophy.

Finally, in addition to all his goals, Neymar adds nearly 45 assists.

Enough to make him the club's most efficient player.

Especially since, when playing, PSG wins 79% of its matches for 8 draws and 13 losses.

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Efficient but absent

On the front side, the goals and the great performances.

On the stack side, too many absences.

100 games in three and a half years is ultimately not enough.

Over the same period, Neymar missed 87 games.

For comparison, Kylian Mbappé, recruited a few weeks after the Brazilian, reached the total of 100 games in November 2019.

The current season is the symbol of this contrasting record for Neymar since he has played only 15 games out of the 28 in Paris (ankle, coronavirus, adductors, suspensions).

One can imagine that, without all these absences, the Brazilian would have even more brilliant statistics.

Without being able to say so.

It is up to Neymar to find this regularity.

At FC Barcelona, ​​where he had signed in 2013 from Santos, the right-hander was more “solid” since he had reached 100 games in two years and two months for 58 goals scored.