The pitched battle at the end of the match between PSG and Olympique de Marseille, which ended with five sent off, had immediate reactions. Neymar, just an hour after seeing the direct red for hitting the Spanish defender Alvaro Gonzalez, has published a tweet in which not only did he not show regret for what happened, but he regretted not having been able to hit him in the face. “The only regret I have is not hitting that asshole in the face”, Neymar has written.
The Brazilian player's tweet was not long in coming viral: In just a few minutes it reached tens of thousands of retweets and already has more than 700,000 'likes'. At dawn on Monday, Álvaro responded to Neymar with a tweet in which he was blunt against racism and sent a message to the forward: “Sometimes you have to learn to lose”.
Neymar does not regret his action
Neymar He has reacted like this to what happened on the lawn a few minutes before. When injury time was played in the PSG – Olympique, a camp battle that has ended with five sent off: three from PSG (including Neymar) and two from Marseille. The referee gave the Brazilian footballer a red card after seeing what happened in the VAR. The images discovered the action of Neymar: a punch from behind to Alvaro Gonzalez.
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The Spanish player also had a run-in with the ex-Madridista Say Maria. The Argentine, supposedly, spat at the defender from Marseille, although it would not have hit him. The images do not make it clear if the spittle was produced or not and if it impacted on Alvaro.