This is good news for PSG.
Marquinhos, the captain, made his return this Thursday to collective training.
Seven days before the shock in the Champions League semi-finals against Manchester City, the Brazilian is giving himself a chance to be on the scoresheet or more.
He participated in the entire collective session or almost, a sign that he does not feel any discomfort.
He finished individually by multiplying the accelerations.
It remains to be seen how his thigh will react in the next few hours.
On April 7, the central defender suffered an injury to the right adductor less than thirty minutes after the start of the quarter-final between Bayern Munich and Paris at the Allianz Arena.
Since then, of course, he has not played a single second with his club.
He missed league matches, the Coupe de France but especially the quarter-final return leg against the Germans.
Too short to start against City?
Tuesday, during the last medical update communicated by PSG, it was announced that for Marquinhos the resumption of training would take place "at the end of the week". The player is therefore perfectly on time. But the deadline still seems too short to hope to see him start a meeting of this dimension, where the duels promise to be numerous and dangerous against the very mobile attackers of Manchester City. In the absence of the captain, Mauricio Pochettino has favored since the match in Munich an axial pair made up of Danilo Pereira and Presnel Kimpembe. She has done well so far against the offensive power of Bayern but the danger and threat will be equivalent or even higher with the Citizens of Pep Guardiola.
The PSG coach has adopted a very clear principle since he officiated at PSG: he is extra careful when it comes to putting injured players back in the saddle, including those affected by the Covid. Marquinhos himself suffered a muscle injury. If his return to training indicates that he has healed in two weeks, he still needs to test his supports, contacts, intensity during oppositions. But this Thursday, there is hope that he will at least sit on the bench against Manchester.