Neymar suffers injury before Lionel Messi scores brilliant stoppage-time winner for PSG - CNN

    Neymar suffers injury before Lionel Messi scores brilliant stoppage-time winner for PSG

    PSG's Neymar is carried off the field on a stretcher against Lille.

    (CNN)Who else but Lionel Messi? The Argentine struck a magnificent late winner for Paris Saint-Germain Sunday to secure a thrilling 4-3 comeback win over Lille.

    The downside for the Parisian club, however, was that Neymar was taken off on a stretcher in the second half with a suspected ankle injury.
    The win ends PSG's three-game losing run and moves the team eight points clear at the top of Ligue 1, although second-placed Marseille plays later Sunday.
      Neymar is comforted by Mbappé before being carried from the field on a stretcher.
      Early goals from Kylian Mbappé -- who on his return from injury ended the match with two goals -- and Neymar had given PSG a 2-0 lead after just 17 minutes. But Bafodé Diakité, Jonathan David and Jonathan Bamba scored for the visitors to put them 3-2 up.
        Five minutes into the second half, Neymar was kicked on his calf and fell badly on his right ankle. The 31-year-old could be seen wincing as he held his right foot while being carried off the pitch on a stretcher.
        Mbappé leveled matters in the 87th minute, converting Juan Bernat's cross, and that appeared to be that until Messi won a stoppage-time free-kick.
          From 22 yards out, the Argentine struck his free-kick brilliantly, curling it into the bottom corner for his 11th league goal of the season.
            "The match was not great, we made a lot of mistakes but we have shown that even when the context is not favorable, we can get through. We are a different team, we can get by all the time," Mbappe told Prime Video, per Reuters.