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'Absolute disgrace': Messi and Neymar targeted in ugly $1b drama

Riley Morgan
·Sports Reporter
·4-min read
Luis Suarez (pictured far right) posing for a photo with Lionel Messi (pictured far left) and Neymar (pictured middle) and Neymar (pictured right) walking during PSG match.
Luis Suarez (pictured far right) was quick to defend former teammates Lionel Messi (pictured far left) and Neymar (pictured middle) after they were booed by PSG fans. (Images: Instagram/Getty Images)

Home fans have booed both Lionel Messi and Neymar every time they touched the ball during the team's Ligue 1 clash against Bourdeaux following PSG's dramatic exit in the Champions League.

PSG defeated Bordeaux 3-0 Ligue 1 at the Parc de Princes, but fans were still feeling the pain from losing to Real Madrid in the mid-week Champions League clash.

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Fans whistled Neymar even when he scored the second goal against rock-bottom Bordeaux.

Even when Messi embarked on a trademark run from deep and hit the post he got booed.

Kylian Mbappe, who ironically is tipped to join Real Madrid at the end of the season, was the only player spared whistles when the team names were read out before the match.

"I feel sad about what I saw today," PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino said.

"All of us were upset."

However, Pochettino admitted the players needed to accept some responsibility for yet another Champions League demise.

"We have to accept responsibility for what happened," Pochettino said.

"We share the disappointment of the fans."

Football world reacts to Neymar, Messi jeers

Regardless of their performance mid-week, the football world was still left in shock at how two legends of the game were being treated.

Messi has never experienced such disdain during a match, even during the tough times of his international career.

Former teammate at Barcelona, Luis Suarez, was quick to defend both of them and also took a dig at the fans in the process.

While some football experts defended the PSG fans and said they had every right to feel aggrieved from the performances from the team considering the estimated value of the starting XI is more than $1 billion.

The two former Barcelona stars were also on the receiving end of some hostile chants encouraging them to leave PSG.

A banner read "Direction Demission" (Directors Resign) seemingly aimed at sporting director Leonardo and president Nasser Al-Khelaifi. PSG's ultras group — known as CUP — demanded in a statement on Saturday night that Al-Khelaifi depart.

The anger started after Real Madrid's epic comeback against PSG in the Spanish capital.

Lionel Messi (pictured right) and Neymar (pictured left) leave the field after being booed from Paris Saint-Germain fans.
Lionel Messi (pictured right) and Neymar (pictured left) leave the field after being booed from Paris Saint-Germain fans. (Getty Images) (Tim Clayton - Corbis via Getty Images)

Down 1-0 from the first leg in the French capital, Madrid found themselves two goals down in the tie after Kylian Mbappe's first half strike.

It looked to be curtains for the 13-time European champions but Carlo Ancelotti's men - through the craft of former Ballon d'Or winner Luka Modric and the ruthlessness of Benzema - found another gear to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

with AAP

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