Gabriel Jesus recalls the drama he faced during the World Cup

‘‘To be honest, I don’t know what happened, because I didn’t feel anything. I just heard something, but nothing has changed. I continued playing without pain, nothing. I was comfortable, nothing. I was replaced, nothing. Then on the bench I started to feel something. After that, it got so big that I couldn’t bend my knee. And that was really scary, you know? – recalls.

Gabriel Jesus drama during World Cup

_{Gabriel Jesus recovering from injury holding crutches. Playback: Instagram}

But, despite the swelling, Gabriel still believed that he could return to the fields to defend the Selection and says that he was outraged when he learned that he would be out. ‘‘As soon as my knee started to grow, I was thinking about the World Cup, of course. And then I said to myself: ok, I’ll probably miss two or three practices and then I’ll come back for the quarterfinals or semifinals, I don’t know. And then we did the scans and they said I was out. You think about everything, about missing the World Cup, missing the rest of the season, four years of work. I wondered why, but we’ll never know”, reported.

”I was sad. I cried a lot that day, but the very next day I started laughing and smiling because that was in the past. I was like: ok, job done, now it’s time to think about surgery, get back in shape and stronger than I was before’‘, finished.

The player returned to Arsenal to start his training at the beginning of March and within a week, he was chosen to enter the 3-0 defeat against Fulham. Soon after, he was in the starting line-up in the game against Sporting and last weekend, he entered the field in the defeat against Crystal Place.

The Gunners’ next game is on Saturday, the 11th, at 11:00 am (Brasília time) against the Leads, at the Emirates stadium, in the Premier League.

Featured photo: Gabriel Jesus posing with Arsenal uniform. Playback: Instagram