🐐 Neymar hat-trick despite injury, World Cup hopes alive 🇧🇷 | OneFootball

The meniscus injury and the doctors' advice to end the 2025 season early seemed like the definitive stop signal. But not for Neymar.

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After the injury sustained with Santos, the Brazilian legend chose to grit his teeth and return to the field in the two most delicate matches of the season, the decisive ones for the relegation battle. 

👑 O'Ney heroic with Santos: salvation within reach

After recording a goal and an assist in the match against Sport Recife, the class of '92 repeated himself overnight with a display of true mastery, leading the club that raised him to a victory of enormous significance.

Against Juventude, Neymar scored a hat-trick in just 17 minutes, giving Santos three golden points that solidify the position of the black-and-whites outside the relegation zone.

Now the gap is +2 and, with only one matchday left in the Brasileirão, salvation is much closer. On the horizon is the last hurdle: Sunday, at home, against a Cruzeiro that sits in third place. But with O'Ney in this condition, fear seems like a detail.

🇧🇷 Neymar "warns" Ancelotti: will he be at the 2026 World Cup?

Despite the injury and a contract expiring at the end of the season, the Brazilian star is ready to give everything to save Santos.

So the question arises spontaneously: will the heroic feats be enough to convince Carlo Ancelotti to take him to the 2026 World Cup? The message has already been sent. Cruzeiro and Seleçao warned.

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