At the Parc des Princes,
PSG-Montpellier has just kicked off, the ball has only been rolling for a minute and Neymar touches his first ball. Not the easiest. Cornered in his camp at the edge of the sideline, the Brazilian pretends to gain momentum to clear the ball in the 22 meters opponents. It will only come out with a big kick in the wind. His vis-à-vis falls roughly into the panel and Neymar watches him, foot on the ball, turn his back to protect himself unnecessarily. A minute of play and the Brazilian has already responded provocatively to the many criticisms made by Andy Delort after the first leg, reformulated before the match and on which the attacker returned to the mixed zone.
"Why would I regret (what he said about Neymar)? I never said that he was not a good player, he is a very good player we saw him tonight. Bravo to him, he's a great player. Tonight we saw that he was in good shape, I don't know if it's because he didn't play in the Coupe de France, at least when he plays like that it's unstoppable. "
Stop Neymar, the people of Montpellier have only managed to do so illegally. Nine faults suffered by the Parisian number 10, one every ten minutes on average. A nice score that can be explained by a vicious circle. Ney room, the defenders butcher him, he gets angry, room even more and so on.
Neymar would have taken a yellow for having chambered the defense
The apogee of this diagram occurs shortly after half an hour of play, moment chosen by Neymar to draw on the left corridor the famous lambretta that one felt for a while before the poor Arnaud Souquet, completely overwhelmed. A handful of a second later, the referee heads to the Brazilian to chat with him. The tone rises, and M.Brisard takes out the yellow.
According to Presnel Kimpembe, interviewed in the mixed zone, it was for his ball-to-toe chambering that his teammate was sanctioned.
"É incompreensível! O árbitro disse que o Neymar tirou sarro do adversário e por isso levou cartão". Kimpembe explicou o que o árbitro falou sobre ter dado amarelo para o camisa 10 no jogo contra o Montpellier. Liga!
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“The referee's response was a bit odd. He said that he chambered the opponent and therefore he received a card ”, to which even Andy Delort does not adhere. "I didn't understand why he put on yellow. If it's for a dribble I don't find it normal. "
The confusion continued at half-time in the Parc des Princes tunnel. While Verratti asked the referee for explanations on the reasons for the blame received by his teammate, Neymar disembarked and called Mr. Brisard again. “Me, I play football and he puts a yellow card to me. Tell him he can't put me a yellow! The arbitrator asked him to speak French. Answer: "Speak French ... My ass!" ". Atmosphere. If the version of the Parisians is confirmed, in fact, he cannot put yellow on it, even if the intention may be that of preserving the Parisian star. Did the referee intend to dissuade Neymar from continuing his circus to spare him the ankle guillotine?
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"The Neymar we love to see"
The substance of the debate is known. It is neither the first nor the last time that we will get into the Neymar case. Amazing player with a splitting play style. Yes, it can be unbearable, inelegant in humiliation, cumbersome in the way of adding a case to Instagram, whatever you want. But we cannot take away a certain sense of spectacle between four lines. In this, he is one of the last guarantors of a certain vision of football, that of his country of origin. Delort, like everyone else, recognizes its value once frustrations are put aside. Finally, Presnel Kimpembe is perhaps the one who best describes the Neymar on Saturday evening.
“It's the Neymar that we like to see, it's the Neymar that spectators like to see. When it is in big evenings like that, we have our eyes wide open, and we are very happy to have it with us. The adversaries are simply inversely proportionately sad to have to stuff him. But between us, it is better to take ten little bridges in the year and applaud the sea lion the rest of the time than to get bored in a farmers league without fantasy, right?
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