Lucas Hernandez missed the entire end of PSG’s last season due to a serious knee injury. While he returned to the field recently, the defender returned to his serious injury and his long convalescence.
Author of a good first season in the jersey of
PSG, Lucas Hernandez saw the latter change on May 1, 2024. During the semi-final first leg of the Champions League against the Borussia Dortmundby trying to intervene in front of Niclas Füllkrug to prevent the Germans from scoring, the French international was seriously injured. He suffered a ruptured anterior ligament in his left knee. Operated a few days later, the defender then began a long convalescence until returning to the field on December 10 against
Salzbourg in Champions League. He participated in two other meetings before the winter break. For PSG TV, he looked back on his convalescence.
“Frankly, we have a superb medical team”
« At the moment of the goal, I say in my head, ok, it’s offside. Afterwards, I began to realize that my knee had failed. I feel something cracking inside. I already had the cross on the right. I was frustrated. I’m frustrated because I’m thinking, once again, what is happening to me in such an important moment. Leaving the team like that was frustrating. I didn’t want to go out. When I return to the locker room, the doctor gives me an exam to find out if it’s really the cruciate. Everything indicates that it may be a rupture of the cruciate ligament. (…) Frankly, we have a superb medical team, the doctors, the physiotherapists… They all did an exceptional job. Frankly, it’s also thanks to them, seven months later, that I can be on the ground. When this injury happened, they didn’t want to waste time. They told me that we know it’s a long injury, but just because it’s a long injury doesn’t mean we should take it easy. From the start, it was coming here (to the Campus, Editor’s note), doing treatment, working, balneotherapy, working, working. This is what made me evolve and come back more quickly than expected. »
-See also: Hernandez: “It’s a pride to be back on the pitch”
“When you come back, you make the most of it”
He also spoke about the difficulty of being alone during this period. “ These moments when I was all alone, it is only me who must look for this motivation. When you have something like that, there are a lot of things going through your head. Why continue to suffer like this? It’s worth suffering for something you love doing. But is it worth it to continue to be alone for, I don’t know how many months, having very bad times. Is it worth continuing to fight? But afterwards, when I talk about it to my girlfriend or my children, who say to me: Dad, we want to see you play football again, automatically all my thoughts fade away. My return to the training grounds? I was at ease, happy because I told myself that we had taken a step forward. But after this training, I said to myself where there is a lot left. My return to the field? I continue to have fun and enjoy what I do. Every trip and every moment with the team, I enjoy it because the football career is not long. When you’re in it, you don’t really realize what it is, what it feels like. It’s when you’re really outside, when you see from the outside what it gives and you don’t take advantage of it, when you come back, you make the most of it. »
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